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California Court of Appeal / Joined 1999 / Active

Steven Zalkind Perren

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Steven Zalkind Perren is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 1999. He previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Ventura. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: Since 1999 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Superior Court of California, County of Ventura	–	–
1999	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

University of California-Los Angeles		1964
University of California-Los Angeles		1967

Judicial Record

In our data, Perren authored 161 published opinions for the court (2000–2019), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: People v. Taylor (137 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. 83 of these were attributed to Perren 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	People v. Taylor	72 Cal. Rptr. 3d 740	137
2009	People v. Neely	176 Cal. App. 4th 787	104
2004	People v. Corella	18 Cal. Rptr. 3d 770	95
2010	Dotson v. Amgen, Inc.	181 Cal. App. 4th 975	93
2017	Jacobs v. Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Co.†	221 Cal. Rptr. 3d 701	76
2012	People v. Clayburg· Dissent†	211 Cal. App. 4th 86	76
2016	People v. Gutierrez†	245 Cal. App. 4th 393	75
2009	World Financial Group, Inc. v. HBW Insurance & Financial Services Inc.	172 Cal. App. 4th 1561	72
2006	People v. Carrasco	40 Cal. Rptr. 3d 768	62
2013	Powerhouse Motorsports Group, Inc. v. Yamaha Motor Corp., USA†	221 Cal. App. 4th 867	60
2006	People v. Thompson	46 Cal. Rptr. 3d 884	58
2007	County of San Bernardino v. Walsh	69 Cal. Rptr. 3d 848	57
2006	Dunn v. County of Santa Barbara	38 Cal. Rptr. 3d 316	57
2014	Williamson v. Williamson†	226 Cal. App. 4th 1303	54
2012	Shuster v. BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP†	211 Cal. App. 4th 505	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 167 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 is Steven Zalkind Perren on?: Steven Zalkind Perren is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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26 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).