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 2003 / Served to 2021

Raymond John Ikola

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Raymond John Ikola was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2003–2021 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Electrical Engineering	1962
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Electrical Engineering	1963
New York University	Electrophysics	1972
UC Law San Francisco		1974

Judicial Record

In our data, Ikola authored 188 published opinions for the court (2003–2019). Most cited: Casey v. U.S. Bank National Ass'n (186 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. 95 of these were attributed to Ikola 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
2005	Casey v. U.S. Bank National Ass'n	26 Cal. Rptr. 3d 401	186
2008	Peterson v. Cellco Partnership	164 Cal. App. 4th 1583	144
2008	Saxena v. Goffney	71 Cal. Rptr. 3d 469	139
2010	Daniels v. Robbins	182 Cal. App. 4th 204	106
2010	People v. Nguyen	184 Cal. App. 4th 1096	100
2011	Boschma v. Home Loan Center, Inc.†	198 Cal. App. 4th 230	92
2014	Williams v. Superior Court†	230 Cal. App. 4th 636	86
2011	People v. Gregerson†	202 Cal. App. 4th 306	82
2015	Miles v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co.†	236 Cal. App. 4th 394	81
2006	Rodriguez v. American Technologies, Inc.	39 Cal. Rptr. 3d 437	80
2010	People v. Eid	187 Cal. App. 4th 859	79
2008	M v. v. Superior Court	167 Cal. App. 4th 166	78
2007	Sabbah v. Sabbah	60 Cal. Rptr. 3d 175	76
2013	City of Costa Mesa v. D'Alessio Investments†	214 Cal. App. 4th 358	75
2009	People v. Bell	179 Cal. App. 4th 428	74

Showing the 15 most-cited of 188 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 John Ikola on?: Raymond John Ikola was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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18 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).