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 1999 / Served to 2011

Wendy Clark Duffy

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal

Wendy Clark Duffy was an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal (89 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2011 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	California Court of Appeal	–	–
2005	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Duffy authored 45 published opinions for the court (2005–2011), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Shaw v. County of Santa Cruz (293 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. 46 of these were attributed to Duffy 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
2008	Shaw v. County of Santa Cruz†	170 Cal. App. 4th 229	293
2005	Stewart v. Preston Pipeline Inc.†	36 Cal. Rptr. 3d 901	237
2006	Quiroz v. Seventh Avenue Center†	45 Cal. Rptr. 3d 222	190
2010	People v. Pacheco†	187 Cal. App. 4th 1392	121
2009	Berg & Berg Enterprises, LLC v. Boyle†	178 Cal. App. 4th 1020	112
2006	JKH Enterprises, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations†	48 Cal. Rptr. 3d 563	107
2008	Perez v. Grajales†	169 Cal. App. 4th 580	101
2008	Paiva v. Nichols†	168 Cal. App. 4th 1007	93
2007	MERCURY INTERACTIVE CORPORATION v. Klein†	70 Cal. Rptr. 3d 88	88
2006	Delfino v. Agilent Technologies, Inc.†	52 Cal. Rptr. 3d 376	83
2010	People v. Mario Renee Perez†	182 Cal. App. 4th 231	82
2011	People v. Powell†	194 Cal. App. 4th 1268	80
2011	People v. Uribe†	199 Cal. App. 4th 836	77
2011	People v. Roberts†	195 Cal. App. 4th 1106	76
2007	Sisemore v. Master Financial, Inc.†	60 Cal. Rptr. 3d 719	72

Showing the 15 most-cited of 46 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 Wendy Clark Duffy on?: Wendy Clark Duffy was 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).