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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1987 / Served to 2004

Margaret Grignon

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Margaret Grignon was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–2004 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1990	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Grignon authored 134 published opinions for the court (1985–2004), plus 6 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Moeller v. Chun-Yen Lien (168 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. 28 of these were attributed to Grignon 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
1994	Moeller v. Chun-Yen Lien	25 Cal. App. 4th 822	168
1993	Myers Building Industries, Ltd. v. Interface Technology, Inc.	13 Cal. App. 4th 949	164
2000	In Re Jessica K.	94 Cal. Rptr. 2d 798	123
1995	Wantuch v. Davis	32 Cal. App. 4th 786	118
1997	Brundage v. Hahn	57 Cal. App. 4th 228	106
1996	Fiol v. Doellstedt	50 Cal. App. 4th 1318	101
1991	Pierce v. Lyman	1 Cal. App. 4th 1093	100
1992	Jacoves v. United Merchandising Corp.	9 Cal. App. 4th 88	87
1992	Mid-Wilshire Associates v. O'LEARY	7 Cal. App. 4th 1450	85
2004	O'FLAHERTY v. Belgum· Dissent†	9 Cal. Rptr. 3d 286	74
1992	Art Movers, Inc. v. Ni West, Inc.	3 Cal. App. 4th 640	72
1995	People v. Ramirez	33 Cal. App. 4th 559	69
2004	Gil v. Mansano	17 Cal. Rptr. 3d 420	64
2003	National Council Against Health Fraud, Inc. v. King Bio Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	133 Cal. Rptr. 2d 207	64
2002	Seo v. All-Makes Overhead Doors	119 Cal. Rptr. 2d 160	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 146 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 Margaret Grignon on?: Margaret Grignon was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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17 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).