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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 2014 / Active

Therese Marie Stewart

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Therese Marie Stewart is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Cornell University		1978
University of California-Berkeley		1981

Judicial Record

In our data, Stewart authored 37 published opinions for the court (2014–2019), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: People v. Anthony (186 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. 38 of these were attributed to Stewart 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
2019	People v. Anthony†	244 Cal. Rptr. 3d 499	186
2019	Tanguilig v. Valdez†	248 Cal. Rptr. 3d 672	95
2019	McClain v. Kissler†	251 Cal. Rptr. 3d 885	69
2017	Grappo v. McMills· Dissent†	11 Cal. App. 5th 996	62
2019	Sonoma Cnty. Human Servs. Dep't v. Heather B. (In re C.W.)†	245 Cal. Rptr. 3d 463	57
2017	People v. Price†	8 Cal. App. 5th 409	56
2016	Patricia W. v. Superior Court†	244 Cal. App. 4th 397	45
2016	Hearn Pacific Corp. v. Second Generation Roofing, Inc.†	247 Cal. App. 4th 117	37
2018	People v. Morales†	235 Cal. Rptr. 3d 776	32
2016	People v. Deegan†	247 Cal. App. 4th 532	32
2017	Clary v. City of Crescent City†	11 Cal. App. 5th 274	28
2016	Industrial Waste & Debris Box Service, Inc. v. Murphy†	4 Cal. App. 5th 1135	27
2015	People v. Linn†	241 Cal. App. 4th 46	26
2017	People v. Charles G. (In re Charles G.)†	223 Cal. Rptr. 3d 350	25
2018	People v. Bilbrey†	236 Cal. Rptr. 3d 381	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 38 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 Therese Marie Stewart on?: Therese Marie Stewart is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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12 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).