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 1991

Ronald M. George

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Ronald M. George was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–1991 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, George authored 37 published opinions for the court (1987–1991), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Smith v. County of Los Angeles (74 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 George 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
1989	Smith v. County of Los Angeles	214 Cal. App. 3d 266	74
1989	Lawrence v. Walzer & Gabrielson	207 Cal. App. 3d 1501	44
1988	Maheu v. CBS, INC.	201 Cal. App. 3d 662	42
1991	People v. Perez	229 Cal. App. 3d 302	31
1990	People v. Anderson	221 Cal. App. 3d 331	31
1989	Gates Rubber Co. v. Ulman	214 Cal. App. 3d 356	31
1988	People v. Vargas	204 Cal. App. 3d 1455	31
1987	People v. Burns	196 Cal. App. 3d 1440	31
1990	Mahoney v. Southland Mental Health Associates Medical Group	223 Cal. App. 3d 167	28
1989	Silver v. Gold	211 Cal. App. 3d 17	27
1988	DeVito v. State of California	202 Cal. App. 3d 264	25
1987	Jutzi v. County of Los Angeles	196 Cal. App. 3d 637	23
1989	In Re Marriage of Niklas	211 Cal. App. 3d 28	21
1988	Domingue v. Presley of Southern California· Dissent†	197 Cal. App. 3d 1060	21
1988	Great-West Life Assur. v. Guar. Co. of N. America	205 Cal. App. 3d 199	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 40 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 Ronald M. George on?: Ronald M. George was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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4 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).