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 1977 / Served to 1984

Sidney Feinberg

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Sidney Feinberg was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1977. They previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1977–1984 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara	–	–
1977	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Feinberg authored 90 published opinions for the court (1977–1984), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Covino (94 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. 14 of these were attributed to Feinberg 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
1980	People v. Covino	100 Cal. App. 3d 660	94
1979	People v. Yarber	90 Cal. App. 3d 895	55
1981	Coleman v. Superior Court	116 Cal. App. 3d 129	49
1983	People v. Salazar	144 Cal. App. 3d 799	48
1982	Gomes v. Fried	136 Cal. App. 3d 924	46
1978	People v. Rodgers	79 Cal. App. 3d 26	40
1978	Lohman v. Superior Court	81 Cal. App. 3d 90	38
1983	Diaz v. Oakland Tribune, Inc.· Concurrence†	139 Cal. App. 3d 118	37
1979	Jones v. Superior Court	96 Cal. App. 3d 390	35
1979	People v. Harris	93 Cal. App. 3d 103	34
1981	O'NEIL v. Cunningham	118 Cal. App. 3d 466	33
1979	People v. Simpson	90 Cal. App. 3d 919	33
1983	Classen v. Weller	145 Cal. App. 3d 27	32
1980	People v. McGreen	107 Cal. App. 3d 504	28
1980	People v. West	107 Cal. App. 3d 987	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 97 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 Sidney Feinberg on?: Sidney Feinberg was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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6 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).