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 1989 / Served to 2018

Sandy R. Kriegler

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Sandy R. Kriegler was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–2018 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2005	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kriegler authored 127 published opinions for the court (1987–2018), plus 3 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Avila v. Continental Airlines, Inc. (129 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. 81 of these were attributed to Kriegler 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
2008	Avila v. Continental Airlines, Inc.· Concurrence†	165 Cal. App. 4th 1237	129
2005	Trop v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.	29 Cal. Rptr. 3d 144	88
2011	Brown v. Ralphs Grocery Co.· Concurrence†	197 Cal. App. 4th 489	83
2014	Welco Electronics, Inc. v. Mora· Concurrence†	223 Cal. App. 4th 202	81
2009	People v. Castellanos· Concurrence†	175 Cal. App. 4th 1524	68
1987	Staples v. Hoefke	189 Cal. App. 3d 1397	68
2009	People v. Sisneros	174 Cal. App. 4th 142	67
2007	Isip v. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC	65 Cal. Rptr. 3d 695	64
2016	People v. Eulian†	247 Cal. App. 4th 1324	63
2016	People v. Mateo†	243 Cal. App. 4th 1063	63
2007	Morrow v. Los Angeles Unified School District	57 Cal. Rptr. 3d 885	62
2016	Southern California Gas Co. v. Flannery†	5 Cal. App. 5th 476	60
2010	Stasz v. Eisenberg†	190 Cal. App. 4th 1032	58
2008	Chinn v. KMR Property Management	166 Cal. App. 4th 175	55
2005	Blumhorst v. JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF LA	24 Cal. Rptr. 3d 474	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 138 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 Sandy R. Kriegler on?: Sandy R. Kriegler was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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28 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).