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 1941 / Served to 1999

Parker Wood

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Parker Wood was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1941. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1941–1999 · 58 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1941	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wood authored 1,255 published opinions for the court (1940–1995), plus 18 dissents and 25 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Manson (206 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. 258 of these were attributed to Wood 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
1976	People v. Manson· Concurrence†	61 Cal. App. 3d 102	206
1951	Oil Workers International Union v. Superior Court	103 Cal. App. 2d 512	73
1968	Finley v. Orr	262 Cal. App. 2d 656	68
1959	People v. Blakeman	170 Cal. App. 2d 596	58
1955	Oldis v. La Societe Francaise De Bienfaisance Mutuelle	130 Cal. App. 2d 461	51
1971	System Investment Corp. v. Union Bank	21 Cal. App. 3d 137	47
1957	Eclipse Fuel Engineering Co. v. Superior Court	307 P.2d 739	45
1954	People v. Candiotto	128 Cal. App. 2d 347	45
1950	Brown v. San Francisco Ball Club, Inc.	99 Cal. App. 2d 484	45
1952	Schaefer v. Superior Court	248 P.2d 450	44
1956	Hurlimann v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n	141 Cal. App. 2d 801	41
1953	People v. Barnett	257 P.2d 1041	41
1950	People v. Neal· Concurrence†	97 Cal. App. 2d 668	41
1954	Guerra v. Balestrieri	274 P.2d 443	39
1953	Alexander v. Mitchell· Concurrence†	119 Cal. App. 2d 816	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,298 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 Parker Wood on?: Parker Wood was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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58 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).