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 1965 / Served to 1984

Richard A. Schauer

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Richard A. Schauer was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1965–1984 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1982	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Schauer authored 62 published opinions for the court (1936–1984). Most cited: Gossman v. Gossman (90 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. 3 of these were attributed to Schauer 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
1942	Gossman v. Gossman	52 Cal. App. 2d 184	90
1983	Gomez v. Ticor	145 Cal. App. 3d 622	75
1942	Cox v. Tyrone Power Enterprises Inc.	49 Cal. App. 2d 383	75
1983	Johnson v. County of Los Angeles	143 Cal. App. 3d 298	62
1973	California State Employees' Ass'n v. Flournoy	32 Cal. App. 3d 219	51
1983	Rickel v. Schwinn Bicycle Co.	144 Cal. App. 3d 648	45
1942	People v. Burness	53 Cal. App. 2d 214	36
1984	Reisman v. Shahverdian	153 Cal. App. 3d 1074	31
1937	People v. Schwartz	28 Cal. App. Supp. 2d 775	25
1973	Blau v. City of Los Angeles	32 Cal. App. 3d 77	24
1942	Hutchason v. Marks	54 Cal. App. 2d 113	24
1984	Plumlee v. Poag	150 Cal. App. 3d 541	23
1983	Lazar v. Thermal Equipment Corp.	148 Cal. App. 3d 458	22
1983	Rosenthal v. Garner	142 Cal. App. 3d 891	22
1942	Riley v. Dunbar	55 Cal. App. 2d 452	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 62 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 Richard A. Schauer on?: Richard A. Schauer 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).