Superior Court of California, County of Orange / Joined 1987 / Served to 1997

William Wiley Bedsworth Jr.

Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Orange

William Wiley Bedsworth Jr. was a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Orange, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 1987–1997 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Superior Court of California, County of Orange	–	–

Education

Loyola Marymount University	cum laude	1968
University of California-Berkeley		1971

Judicial Record

In our data, Bedsworth authored 117 published opinions for the court (1994–2010). Most cited: People v. Olguin (358 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1994	People v. Olguin	31 Cal. App. 4th 1355	358
2001	In Re Nada R.	108 Cal. Rptr. 2d 493	143
2004	David B. v. Superior Court	20 Cal. Rptr. 3d 336	120
2009	People v. Alvarez	178 Cal. App. 4th 999	110
1999	People v. Montes	88 Cal. Rptr. 2d 482	99
2000	Shaw v. Hughes Aircraft Co.	100 Cal. Rptr. 2d 446	89
2004	Defend the Bay v. City of Irvine	15 Cal. Rptr. 3d 176	88
1998	Edson v. City of Anaheim	63 Cal. App. 4th 1269	84
2005	Endangered Habitats League, Inc. v. County of Orange	32 Cal. Rptr. 3d 177	79
2005	Roe v. McDonald's Corp.	29 Cal. Rptr. 3d 127	68
2002	Heidary v. Yadollahi	121 Cal. Rptr. 2d 695	62
2003	Morris v. Paul Revere Life Insurance Co.	135 Cal. Rptr. 2d 718	55
1998	Edson v. City of Anaheim	74 Cal. Rptr. 2d 614	54
2007	Reedy v. Bussell	56 Cal. Rptr. 3d 216	52
2004	People v. Quach	10 Cal. Rptr. 3d 196	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 117 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.

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10 years on the Superior Court of California, County of Orange. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).