How do judges of the Supreme Court of California reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of California / Joined 1959 / Served to 1973

Raymond E. Peters

Justice, Supreme Court of California

Raymond E. Peters was a Justice of the Supreme Court of California, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1973
Tenure: 1959–1973 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Supreme Court of California	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Peters authored 321 published opinions for the court (1942–1972), plus 81 dissents and 33 concurrences. Most cited: Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court (2,916 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. 196 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
1962	Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court†	57 Cal. 2d 450	2,916
1965	In Re Estrada	63 Cal. 2d 740	2,432
1968	Rowland v. Christian	69 Cal. 2d 108	1,329
1969	In Re Tahl· Concurrence†	460 P.2d 449	953
1965	Seely v. White Motor Co.· Concurrence†	403 P.2d 145	667
1969	People v. Redmond	71 Cal. 2d 745	505
1967	Crisci v. Security Insurance	66 Cal. 2d 425	473
1963	People v. Mickelson· Concurrence†	59 Cal. 2d 448	387
1962	People v. McFarland· Concurrence†	376 P.2d 449	375
1967	People v. Lara· Dissent†	432 P.2d 202	352
1970	People v. St. Martin	463 P.2d 390	315
1961	Greyhound Corp. v. Superior Court	364 P.2d 266	296
1971	Sail'er Inn, Inc. v. Kirby	485 P.2d 529	290
1963	People v. Wilson· Dissent†	383 P.2d 452	281
1967	People v. Kelley	66 Cal. 2d 232	279

Showing the 15 most-cited of 436 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 Supreme Court of California 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 Supreme Court of California.

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14 years on the Supreme Court of California. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).