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 1958 / Served to 1973

Roy L. Herndon

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Roy L. Herndon was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1958–1973 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Herndon authored 490 published opinions for the court (1958–1973), plus 12 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Henze (91 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. 113 of these were attributed to Herndon 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
1967	People v. Henze· Dissent†	253 Cal. App. 2d 986	91
1962	People v. Stadnick	207 Cal. App. 2d 767	69
1963	People v. Cowman	223 Cal. App. 2d 109	66
1972	San Luis Obispo Bay Properties, Inc. v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.	28 Cal. App. 3d 556	63
1959	People v. Caruso	345 P.2d 282	59
1971	Bleeck v. State Board of Optometry	18 Cal. App. 3d 415	46
1972	People v. Spencer	22 Cal. App. 3d 786	45
1968	People v. Heard	266 Cal. App. 2d 747	44
1973	People v. Bremmer· Dissent†	30 Cal. App. 3d 1058	42
1963	McRae v. Superior Court	221 Cal. App. 2d 166	37
1958	People v. McCarty	164 Cal. App. 2d 322	36
1959	Maywood Glass Co. v. Stewart	170 Cal. App. 2d 719	35
1963	Hood v. Superior Court	220 Cal. App. 2d 242	33
1959	Juzefski v. Western Casualty & Surety Co.· Dissent†	173 Cal. App. 2d 118	33
1965	People v. Sullivan· Concurrence†	234 Cal. App. 2d 562	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 518 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 Roy L. Herndon on?: Roy L. Herndon was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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15 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).