How do judges of the California Court of Appeal reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1959 / Served to 1981

Macklin Fleming

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Macklin Fleming was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1959–1981 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1964	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fleming authored 408 published opinions for the court (1964–1981), plus 12 dissents and 27 concurrences. Most cited: Merritt v. Reserve Insurance (178 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 94 of these were attributed to Fleming by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1973	Merritt v. Reserve Insurance	34 Cal. App. 3d 858	178
1969	People v. Manis	268 Cal. App. 2d 653	126
1966	Odorizzi v. Bloomfield School District	246 Cal. App. 2d 123	95
1967	People v. Henze	253 Cal. App. 2d 986	91
1974	Ogo Associates v. City of Torrance	37 Cal. App. 3d 830	88
1972	Balido v. Improved MacHinery, Inc.	29 Cal. App. 3d 633	87
1977	Trs. of William Randolph Hearst Testamentary Tr. v. Lubinski	67 Cal. App. 3d 777	83
1974	Self v. General Motors Corp.	42 Cal. App. 3d 1	66
1965	Inter-Insurance Exchange of Automobile Club v. Lopez	238 Cal. App. 2d 441	57
1966	People v. Rogers	241 Cal. App. 2d 384	56
1971	White v. Cox	17 Cal. App. 3d 824	55
1964	Swartzman v. Superior Court	231 Cal. App. 2d 195	52
1974	Home Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Superior Court	42 Cal. App. 3d 1006	48
1977	Quezada v. Hart	67 Cal. App. 3d 754	45
1977	Endicott v. Nissan Motor Corp.	73 Cal. App. 3d 917	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 448 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the California Court of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Macklin Fleming on?: Macklin Fleming was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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21 years on the California Court of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).