How do judges of the Supreme Court of California reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of California / Joined 1935 / Served to 1936

Nathaniel P. Conrey

Justice, Supreme Court of California

Nathaniel P. Conrey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1860 · age 166
Tenure: 1935–1936 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Supreme Court of California	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Conrey authored 30 published opinions for the court (1923–1936), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Parker v. James Granger, Inc. (56 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 Conrey 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
1935	Parker v. James Granger, Inc.	4 Cal. 2d 668	56
1936	County of Los Angeles v. Legg	5 Cal. 2d 349	47
1936	Estate of Crane	6 Cal. 2d 218	33
1936	Dam v. Lake Aliso Riding School	6 Cal. 2d 395	30
1936	California Casuality Indemnity Exchange v. Industrial Accident Commission†	5 Cal. 2d 185	30
1936	Adams v. Bell	5 Cal. 2d 697	26
1936	Frey & Horgan Corp. v. Superior Court	5 Cal. 2d 401	26
1936	Crane v. Stevinson	5 Cal. 2d 387	26
1936	People v. Murguia	6 Cal. 2d 190	25
1936	Shuey v. Asbury	5 Cal. 2d 712	25
1935	People v. Kristy	4 Cal. 2d 504	25
1936	Lankershim v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n	6 Cal. 2d 568	24
1936	Doyle v. Pacific Electric Railway Co.	6 Cal. 2d 550	21
1936	People v. Burkhart	5 Cal. 2d 641	19
1936	Skaggs v. City of Oakland	6 Cal. 2d 222	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 32 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 Supreme Court of California reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Nathaniel P. Conrey on?: Nathaniel P. Conrey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California.

Sources

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1 year on the Supreme Court of California. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).