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 1939 / Served to 1959

Raymond E. Peters

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Raymond E. Peters was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1939. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1939–1959 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1939	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Peters authored 756 published opinions for the court (1939–1959), plus 18 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Villa (125 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. 140 of these were attributed to Peters 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
1957	People v. Villa	156 Cal. App. 2d 128	125
1958	Gombos v. Ashe	158 Cal. App. 2d 517	120
1940	Bauman v. City and County of San Francisco	42 Cal. App. 2d 144	111
1953	Crofoot v. Blair Holdings Corp.	119 Cal. App. 2d 156	108
1956	Remmer v. Glens Falls Indemnity Co.	140 Cal. App. 2d 84	102
1952	People v. Talle	111 Cal. App. 2d 650	102
1949	Norwood v. Judd	93 Cal. App. 2d 276	100
1952	People v. Burns· Concurrence†	109 Cal. App. 2d 524	97
1940	People v. Megladdery	40 Cal. App. 2d 748	95
1952	Collins v. City & County of San Francisco	247 P.2d 362	86
1948	Hunter v. Sparling	87 Cal. App. 2d 711	86
1958	San Francisco Unified School District v. California Building Maintenance Co.	162 Cal. App. 2d 434	84
1957	Cal-Farm Insurance v. Boisseranc	312 P.2d 401	84
1947	Hohreiter v. Garrison	81 Cal. App. 2d 384	83
1944	People v. Krupa	64 Cal. App. 2d 592	81

Showing the 15 most-cited of 794 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 Raymond E. Peters on?: Raymond E. Peters was a 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).