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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

California Court of Appeal / Joined 1966 / Served to 1968

Shirley M. Hufstedler

Justice, California Court of Appeal

Shirley M. Hufstedler was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1966–1968 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1966	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hufstedler authored 35 published opinions for the court (1967–1968). Most cited: People v. Dominguez (130 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. 2 of these were attributed to Hufstedler 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. Dominguez	256 Cal. App. 2d 623	130
1967	Patent Scaffolding Co. v. William Simpson Construction Co.	256 Cal. App. 2d 506	119
1967	California Water & Telephone Co. v. County of Los Angeles	253 Cal. App. 2d 16	108
1968	Diodes, Inc. v. Franzen	260 Cal. App. 2d 244	105
1968	Union Bank v. Gradsky	265 Cal. App. 2d 40	49
1967	People v. Hunt	250 Cal. App. 2d 311	44
1968	Beverly Hills Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Superior Court	259 Cal. App. 2d 306	43
1967	People v. Limon	255 Cal. App. 2d 519	28
1967	Farmers Insurance Exchange v. Ruiz	250 Cal. App. 2d 741	18
1967	People v. Churchill	255 Cal. App. 2d 448	17
1967	People v. Sheldon	254 Cal. App. 2d 174	15
1968	People v. Matola	259 Cal. App. 2d 686	13
1968	Blevens v. Sfetku	259 Cal. App. 2d 527	13
1967	Goodman v. Citizens Life & Casualty Insurance	253 Cal. App. 2d 807	13
1968	People v. Taylor	266 Cal. App. 2d 14	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 35 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 Shirley M. Hufstedler on?: Shirley M. Hufstedler was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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2 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).