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 1987 / Served to 2017

Roger W. Boren

Presiding Justice, California Court of Appeal

Roger W. Boren was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1987. He previously served on the Municipal Court of California, County of Los Angeles and Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–2017 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Municipal Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–
1985	Municipal Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–
1985	Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–
1987	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2004	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of California-Berkeley	Political Science	1966
San Jose State University	International Relations	1968
University of California-Los Angeles		1973

Judicial Record

In our data, Boren authored 241 published opinions for the court (1986–2017), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: People v. Samaniego (368 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. 34 of these were attributed to Boren 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
2009	People v. Samaniego	172 Cal. App. 4th 1148	368
1992	Flait v. North American Watch Corp.	3 Cal. App. 4th 467	165
2000	Lectrodryer v. SeoulBank	91 Cal. Rptr. 2d 881	147
1991	Schild v. Rubin	232 Cal. App. 3d 755	127
2011	Cryer v. Cryer†	198 Cal. App. 4th 1039	95
1996	Lance Camper Manufacturing Corp. v. Republic Indemnity Co. of America	44 Cal. App. 4th 194	93
1996	Desai v. Farmers Insurance Exchange	47 Cal. App. 4th 1110	90
1991	People v. Irvin	230 Cal. App. 3d 180	74
2007	People v. O'Dell	64 Cal. Rptr. 3d 116	69
2012	Aleman v. Airtouch Cellular†	209 Cal. App. 4th 556	67
1988	In Re the Marriage of Gavron	203 Cal. App. 3d 705	67
1994	People v. Kongs	30 Cal. App. 4th 1741	60
2005	Jimenez v. County of Los Angeles	29 Cal. Rptr. 3d 553	59
1995	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Bank of America NT&SA	32 Cal. App. 4th 424	59
2001	In Re Santos Y.	112 Cal. Rptr. 2d 692	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 243 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 Roger W. Boren on?: Roger W. Boren was a Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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29 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).