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 1978 / Served to 1979

Paul N. Halvonik

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Paul N. Halvonik was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1978–1979 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Halvonik authored 20 published opinions for the court (1978–1979), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: People v. Davis (40 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. 4 of these were attributed to Halvonik 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
1979	People v. Davis· Concurrence†	92 Cal. App. 3d 250	40
1979	Fults v. Superior Court†	88 Cal. App. 3d 899	35
1979	Fults v. Superior Court	88 Cal. App. 3d 899	34
1979	People v. Pace	92 Cal. App. 3d 199	29
1979	ST. OF CALIFORNIA v. City & Cty. of San Francisco	94 Cal. App. 3d 522	19
1979	Vilner v. Crocker National Bank	89 Cal. App. 3d 732	17
1979	Coleman v. Regents of University of California	93 Cal. App. 3d 521	16
1979	People v. Lawrence O.†	88 Cal. App. 3d 906	16
1978	People v. Alders	87 Cal. App. 3d 313	14
1979	Owen v. Superior Court	88 Cal. App. 3d 757	12
1978	Hidalgo v. Anderson	84 Cal. App. 3d 378	12
1979	People v. Fields	95 Cal. App. 3d 972	9
1979	Dombalian v. Fox	88 Cal. App. 3d 763	6
1978	California Teachers Assn. v. Nielsen	87 Cal. App. 3d 25	6
1979	Blackhawk Corp. v. Ewing	94 Cal. App. 3d 640	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 21 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 Paul N. Halvonik on?: Paul N. Halvonik was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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1 year 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).