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 1961 / Served to 1966

Raymond L. Sullivan

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Raymond L. Sullivan was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1961–1966 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sullivan authored 183 published opinions for the court (1961–1989). Most cited: Lingsch v. Savage (143 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. 7 of these were attributed to Sullivan 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
1963	Lingsch v. Savage	213 Cal. App. 2d 729	143
1963	Wise v. Southern Pacific Co.	223 Cal. App. 2d 50	118
1965	People v. Estrada	234 Cal. App. 2d 136	80
1964	Weinstock v. Eissler	224 Cal. App. 2d 212	80
1962	Snider v. Snider	200 Cal. App. 2d 741	70
1966	Conderback, Inc. v. Standard Oil Co.	239 Cal. App. 2d 664	62
1962	Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp. v. Superior Court	208 Cal. App. 2d 803	62
1965	People v. Willard	238 Cal. App. 2d 292	61
1964	Culbertson v. Cizek	225 Cal. App. 2d 451	58
1963	Chas. L. Harney, Inc. v. State of California	217 Cal. App. 2d 77	52
1962	City & County of San Francisco v. Western Air Lines, Inc.	204 Cal. App. 2d 105	52
1965	People v. Govea	235 Cal. App. 2d 285	50
1966	Boyd v. Bevilacqua	247 Cal. App. 2d 272	46
1962	People v. Donohoe	200 Cal. App. 2d 17	46
1965	People Ex Rel. Department of Public Works v. Silveira	236 Cal. App. 2d 604	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 183 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 L. Sullivan on?: Raymond L. Sullivan was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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5 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).