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Martin Joseph Jenkins

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Martin Joseph Jenkins is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2008. He previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo and Superior Court of California, County of Alameda. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1953 · age 73
Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo	–	–
1989	Superior Court of California, County of Alameda	–	–
1992	Superior Court of California, County of Alameda	–	–
2008	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2019	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2008	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

City College of San Francisco		1973
Santa Clara University		1976
University of San Francisco		1980

Judicial Record

In our data, Jenkins authored 48 published opinions for the court (1978–2018), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: California Oak Foundation v. Regents of the University of California (67 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. 32 of these were attributed to Jenkins 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
2010	California Oak Foundation v. Regents of the University of California	188 Cal. App. 4th 227	67
2011	Sonoma County Human Services Department v. J.H.†	197 Cal. App. 4th 1542	52
2013	People v. Hodges†	213 Cal. App. 4th 531	48
2008	Apollo v. Gyaami	167 Cal. App. 4th 1468	34
2014	Public Employees' Retirement System v. Moody's Investors Service, Inc.†	226 Cal. App. 4th 643	31
2011	Rental Housing Owners Ass'n v. City of Hayward†	200 Cal. App. 4th 81	31
2018	Daugherty v. City & Cnty. of S.F.†	234 Cal. Rptr. 3d 773	30
2009	Burns v. Neiman Marcus Group, Inc.	173 Cal. App. 4th 479	28
2013	Miller v. Bank of America†	213 Cal. App. 4th 1	25
2017	RSB Vineyards, LLC v. Orsi†	223 Cal. Rptr. 3d 458	19
2016	Campaign for Quality Education v. State of California†	246 Cal. App. 4th 896	19
2016	San Francisco Apartment Ass'n v. City & County of San Francisco†	3 Cal. App. 5th 463	18
1978	Cushman v. Davis	80 Cal. App. 3d 731	17
2012	Elder v. Pacific Bell Telephone Co.†	205 Cal. App. 4th 841	16
2010	People v. Sisuphan	181 Cal. App. 4th 800	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 49 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 Martin Joseph Jenkins on?: Martin Joseph Jenkins is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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18 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).