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 1952 / Served to 1964

W Turney Fox

Justice, California Court of Appeal

W Turney Fox was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1952. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1952–1964 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1952	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fox authored 730 published opinions for the court (1935–1967), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Petermann v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 396 (340 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. 99 of these were attributed to Fox 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
1959	Petermann v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 396	344 P.2d 25	340
1957	Brown v. Guarantee Insurance	155 Cal. App. 2d 679	144
1956	People v. Denne	141 Cal. App. 2d 499	117
1958	Lockhart v. Martin	159 Cal. App. 2d 760	113
1952	People v. Frankfort	251 P.2d 401	103
1954	Cone v. Union Oil Co.	129 Cal. App. 2d 558	97
1956	Terry v. Bender	143 Cal. App. 2d 198	88
1953	People v. Deibert	117 Cal. App. 2d 410	76
1954	Bohn v. Watson	130 Cal. App. 2d 24	73
1954	Basin Oil Co. v. Baash-Ross Tool Co.	125 Cal. App. 2d 578	64
1952	Logan v. Forster	250 P.2d 730	58
1956	Stevens v. Marco	305 P.2d 669	54
1952	People v. Sica	112 Cal. App. 2d 574	53
1957	People v. Hood	309 P.2d 856	50
1960	Liberty Building Co. v. Royal Indemnity Co.†	177 Cal. App. 2d 583	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 736 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 W Turney Fox on?: W Turney Fox was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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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).