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 1987 / Served to 2005

Michael G. Nott

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Michael G. Nott was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–2005 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Nott authored 123 published opinions for the court (1991–2005), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Las Palmas Associates v. Las Palmas Center Associates (186 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. 14 of these were attributed to Nott 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
1991	Las Palmas Associates v. Las Palmas Center Associates	235 Cal. App. 3d 1220	186
2000	People v. Downey	98 Cal. Rptr. 2d 627	160
1999	Sipple v. Foundation for National Progress	83 Cal. Rptr. 2d 677	121
1995	American Suzuki Motor Corp. v. Superior Court	37 Cal. App. 4th 1291	112
2002	People v. Bernal	123 Cal. Rptr. 2d 622	97
1999	People v. Thygesen†	69 Cal. App. 4th 988	82
1994	Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club v. Collins	30 Cal. App. 4th 1445	80
1998	Mendoza v. City of Los Angeles†	66 Cal. App. 4th 1333	71
2005	In Re Brooke C.	25 Cal. Rptr. 3d 590	68
2000	People v. Steele	99 Cal. Rptr. 2d 458	57
1998	Maricela C. v. Superior Court of L.A. Cty.	78 Cal. Rptr. 2d 488	54
2003	Utility Audit Co. v. City of Los Angeles	5 Cal. Rptr. 3d 520	50
1996	In Re Jasmine J.	46 Cal. App. 4th 1802	49
1994	Appleton v. Waessil	27 Cal. App. 4th 551	49
1993	People v. Hawkins	15 Cal. App. 4th 1373	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 124 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 Michael G. Nott on?: Michael G. Nott was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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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).