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

California Court of Appeal / Joined 2009 / Active

Victoria Gerrard Chaney

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Victoria Gerrard Chaney is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs
Education: Mount St Mary's 1967

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

Mount St Mary's University	B.S. Nursing	1967
Loyola Marymount University		1977

Judicial Record

In our data, Chaney authored 84 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Villacres v. Abm Industries Inc. (138 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. 79 of these were attributed to Chaney 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
2010	Villacres v. Abm Industries Inc.· Dissent†	189 Cal. App. 4th 562	138
2011	R.D. v. P.M.†	202 Cal. App. 4th 181	126
2019	People v. Pearson†	250 Cal. Rptr. 3d 580	117
2018	People v. Ogunmowo†	232 Cal. Rptr. 3d 529	107
2010	In Re EB	184 Cal. App. 4th 568	93
2018	L. A. Cnty. Dep't of Children & Family Servs. v. Angelina A. (In re D.L.)†	232 Cal. Rptr. 3d 299	84
2017	L. A. Cnty. Dep't of Children & Family Servs. v. Allison S. (In re Travis C.)†	221 Cal. Rptr. 3d 572	47
2014	Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services v. D.B.†	225 Cal. App. 4th 1358	45
2010	In Re Rebecca S.	181 Cal. App. 4th 1310	43
2010	Advanced Choices, Inc. v. State Department of Health Services	182 Cal. App. 4th 1661	42
2015	Cooper v. Bettinger†	242 Cal. App. 4th 77	38
2011	People v. Brandon T.†	191 Cal. App. 4th 1491	37
2015	People v. Walker†	237 Cal. App. 4th 111	31
2017	Furie v. Furie (In re Furie)†	224 Cal. Rptr. 3d 637	30
2015	Kumaraperu v. Feldsted CA2/1†	237 Cal. App. 4th 60	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 88 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 Victoria Gerrard Chaney on?: Victoria Gerrard Chaney is an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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17 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).