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 2006 / Active

Peter John Siggins

Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal

Peter John Siggins is a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1955 · age 71
Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2018	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Loyola Marymount University		1977
UC Law San Francisco		1980

Judicial Record

In our data, Siggins authored 93 published opinions for the court (2006–2019), plus 5 concurrences. Most cited: Samaniego v. Empire Today, LLC (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. 66 of these were attributed to Siggins 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
2012	Samaniego v. Empire Today, LLC†	205 Cal. App. 4th 1138	101
2008	Conte v. Wyeth, Inc.	168 Cal. App. 4th 89	89
2013	The People v. Thomas†	218 Cal. App. 4th 630	84
2015	People v. Malik J.†	240 Cal. App. 4th 896	70
2012	People v. McKnight†	212 Cal. App. 4th 860	69
2010	Lhotka v. Geographic Expeditions, Inc.	181 Cal. App. 4th 816	66
2012	Alameda County Social Services Agency v. Anthony G.†	204 Cal. App. 4th 1390	56
2018	Alameda Cnty. Soc. Servs. Agency v. I.T. (In re E.T.)†	242 Cal. Rptr. 3d 391	49
2013	Lockaway Storage v. County of Alameda†	216 Cal. App. 4th 161	46
2013	Mcveigh v. Recology San Francisco†	213 Cal. App. 4th 443	43
2007	People v. Bufford	53 Cal. Rptr. 3d 273	41
2009	Rental Housing Assn. of Northern Alameda County v. City of Oakland	171 Cal. App. 4th 741	34
2007	Fitzhugh v. GRANADA HEALTHCARE AND REHABILITATION CENTER	58 Cal. Rptr. 3d 585	34
2018	Sander v. State Bar of Cal.†	237 Cal. Rptr. 3d 276	32
2006	Robinzine v. Vicory	50 Cal. Rptr. 3d 65	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 98 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 is Peter John Siggins on?: Peter John Siggins is a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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20 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).