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 2018 / Active

Mark Wood Snauffer

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Mark Wood Snauffer is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2018. He previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Fresno. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2018 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Superior Court of California, County of Fresno	–	–
2018	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of California-Berkeley	Political Science, with high honors	1974
University of California-Los Angeles		1977

Judicial Record

In our data, Snauffer authored 6 published opinions for the court (2019). Most cited: People v. Perry (9 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. 6 of these were attributed to Snauffer 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
2019	People v. Perry†	248 Cal. Rptr. 3d 522	9
2019	Inzana v. Turlock Irrigation Dist. Bd. of Dirs.†	247 Cal. Rptr. 3d 427	9
2019	Ponderosa Tel. Co. v. Cal. Pub. Utilities Comm'n†	249 Cal. Rptr. 3d 200	5
2019	People v. Bueno†	243 Cal. Rptr. 3d 740	4
2019	Hardie v. Nationstar Mortg. LLC†	243 Cal. Rptr. 3d 911	3
2019	People v. Taggart†	242 Cal. Rptr. 3d 734	2

Showing the 6 most-cited of 6 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 is Mark Wood Snauffer on?: Mark Wood Snauffer is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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8 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).