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 2012 / Served to 2016

Miguel Marquez

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Miguel Marquez was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2012–2016 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Marquez authored 35 published opinions for the court (2012–2016), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Rivera (560 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. 37 of these were attributed to Marquez 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
2015	People v. Rivera†	233 Cal. App. 4th 1085	560
2014	Serri v. Santa Clara University†	226 Cal. App. 4th 830	243
2015	People v. Lynall†	233 Cal. App. 4th 1102	139
2015	People v. Contreras†	237 Cal. App. 4th 868	130
2013	People v. Rios†	222 Cal. App. 4th 542	130
2014	People v. Dowdell†	227 Cal. App. 4th 1388	107
2016	People v. Appleton†	245 Cal. App. 4th 717	93
2013	People v. Hamed†	221 Cal. App. 4th 928	87
2014	People v. Van Ngo†	225 Cal. App. 4th 126	75
2015	Lattimore v. Dickey†	239 Cal. App. 4th 959	69
2013	The People v. Wilson†	219 Cal. App. 4th 500	57
2014	St. Mary v. Superior Court†	223 Cal. App. 4th 762	55
2014	People v. Fialho· Concurrence†	229 Cal. App. 4th 1389	45
2013	Optimal Markets, Inc. v. Salant†	221 Cal. App. 4th 912	44
2012	People v. Brandão†	210 Cal. App. 4th 568	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 37 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 Miguel Marquez on?: Miguel Marquez was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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4 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).