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 1985 / Served to 2018

Timothy A. Reardon

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Timothy A. Reardon was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–2018 · 33 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	California Court of Appeal	–	–
1990	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Reardon authored 223 published opinions for the court (1990–2018), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Napa County Department of Health & Human Services v. Shanon K. (211 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. 82 of these were attributed to Reardon 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
2012	Napa County Department of Health & Human Services v. Shanon K.†	203 Cal. App. 4th 188	211
2008	Nadaf-Rahrov v. the Neiman Marcus Group, Inc.	166 Cal. App. 4th 952	184
1999	Lazar v. Hertz Corp.	82 Cal. Rptr. 2d 368	159
2010	Weinstat v. Dentsply International, Inc.	180 Cal. App. 4th 1213	151
2000	Akins v. ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR CO.	94 Cal. Rptr. 2d 448	147
2007	Overstock.com, Inc. v. Gradient Analytics, Inc.	61 Cal. Rptr. 3d 29	129
2008	In Re David H.	165 Cal. App. 4th 1626	105
2018	People v. Kerley†	233 Cal. Rptr. 3d 135	103
1999	Sierra Club Foundation v. Graham	85 Cal. Rptr. 2d 726	88
2014	City of Oakland v. Oakland Police & Fire Retirement System†	224 Cal. App. 4th 210	87
1995	San Francisco Unified School District v. W.R. Grace & Company-Connecticut	37 Cal. App. 4th 1318	82
2002	McGonnell v. Kaiser Gypsum Co., Inc.	120 Cal. Rptr. 2d 23	78
2013	North Coast Rivers Alliance v. Marin Municipal Water District Board of Directors†	216 Cal. App. 4th 614	76
2017	Persons Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. Alameda Cnty. Soc. Servs. Agency v. Marina F. (In re Southern)†	222 Cal. Rptr. 3d 873	73
2004	People v. Price	15 Cal. Rptr. 3d 229	69

Showing the 15 most-cited of 224 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 Timothy A. Reardon on?: Timothy A. Reardon was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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33 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).