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Nora Margaret Manella

Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles

Nora Margaret Manella is a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, serving since 2018. She previously served on the Municipal Court of California, County of Los Angeles and California Court of Appeal. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Tenure: Since 2018 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Municipal Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–
1992	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2006	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2006	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2018	Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–
2018	Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–

Education

Wellesley College		1972
University of Southern California		1975

Judicial Record

In our data, Manella authored 83 published opinions for the court (2008–2018), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Pfeifer v. John Crane, Inc. (101 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. 84 of these were attributed to Manella 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
2013	Pfeifer v. John Crane, Inc.†	220 Cal. App. 4th 1270	101
2014	Lane v. Francis Capital Management LLC†	224 Cal. App. 4th 676	100
2011	Frittelli, Inc. v. 350 North Canon Drive, LP†	202 Cal. App. 4th 35	73
2012	Food Safety Net Services v. Eco Safe Systems USA, Inc.†	209 Cal. App. 4th 1118	70
2011	Tamkin v. Cbs Broadcasting, Inc.†	193 Cal. App. 4th 133	67
2016	In re Marriage of Nassimi†	3 Cal. App. 5th 667	57
2014	Cooper v. Lavely & Singer Professional Corp.†	230 Cal. App. 4th 1	53
2016	Paslay v. State Farm General Insurance Co.†	248 Cal. App. 4th 639	49
2017	Julian v. Glenair, Inc.†	225 Cal. Rptr. 3d 798	48
2015	People v. Lazarus†	238 Cal. App. 4th 734	45
2015	Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. Jesus M.†	235 Cal. App. 4th 104	45
2015	Williams v. Superior Court†	237 Cal. App. 4th 642	44
2012	People v. Rodriguez†	207 Cal. App. 4th 204	42
2016	Davis v. Farmers Insurance Exchange†	245 Cal. App. 4th 1302	41
2015	L.A. Taxi Cooperative, Inc. v. Independent Taxi Owners Ass'n†	239 Cal. App. 4th 918	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 84 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

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7 years on the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).