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 1986 / Served to 2008

Miriam A. Vogel

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Miriam A. Vogel was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1986–2008 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1990	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Vogel authored 402 published opinions for the court (1990–2008), plus 8 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Solis (169 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. 368 of these were attributed to Vogel 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
2001	People v. Solis†	109 Cal. Rptr. 2d 464	169
2001	Rufo v. Simpson†	103 Cal. Rptr. 2d 492	155
1999	People v. Martinez†	76 Cal. App. 4th 489	138
2007	Estrada v. Fedex Ground Package System, Inc.	64 Cal. Rptr. 3d 327	121
1996	Leslie G. v. Perry & Associates†	43 Cal. App. 4th 472	120
1991	United Community Church v. Garcin	231 Cal. App. 3d 327	118
2000	Craig v. Brown & Root, Inc.†	100 Cal. Rptr. 2d 818	113
1993	Khoury v. Maly's of California, Inc.†	14 Cal. App. 4th 612	111
1996	Hernandez v. City of Pomona†	49 Cal. App. 4th 1492	108
2000	Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. Cheryl D.†	84 Cal. App. 4th 424	95
1998	People v. Scheer†	80 Cal. Rptr. 2d 676	91
1999	Record v. Reason· Dissent†	86 Cal. Rptr. 2d 547	90
1998	Rochin v. Pat Johnson Manufacturing Co.†	79 Cal. Rptr. 2d 719	87
1999	McKelvey v. Boeing North American, Inc.†	86 Cal. Rptr. 2d 645	86
2001	Paclink Communications International, Inc. v. Superior Court†	109 Cal. Rptr. 2d 436	80

Showing the 15 most-cited of 416 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 Miriam A. Vogel on?: Miriam A. Vogel was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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22 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).