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 2018 / Active

Tracie Lynne Brown

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Tracie Lynne Brown is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2018. She previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2018 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco	–	–
2018	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Harvard University	magna cum laude	1992
University of California-Berkeley		1996

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 7 published opinions for the court (2019). Most cited: Burch v. Certainteed Corp. (27 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. 7 of these were attributed to Brown 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	Burch v. Certainteed Corp.†	246 Cal. Rptr. 3d 99	27
2019	People v. Morales†	245 Cal. Rptr. 3d 352	20
2019	Lee v. Dep't of Parks & Recreation†	250 Cal. Rptr. 3d 456	13
2019	Long v. Forty Niners Football Co.†	244 Cal. Rptr. 3d 887	12
2019	Robles v. Emp't Dev. Dep't†	250 Cal. Rptr. 3d 611	6
2019	People v. Brown†	243 Cal. Rptr. 3d 921	4
2019	People v. Osotonu†	247 Cal. Rptr. 3d 797	2

Showing the 7 most-cited of 7 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 Tracie Lynne Brown on?: Tracie Lynne Brown is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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7 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).