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 1935 / Served to 1958

William C. Doran

Justice, California Court of Appeal

William C. Doran was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1935–1958 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Doran authored 764 published opinions for the court (1935–1958), plus 20 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Estate of Teed (198 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. 396 of these were attributed to Doran 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
1952	Estate of Teed	112 Cal. App. 2d 638	198
1941	People v. Montgomery	47 Cal. App. 2d 1	93
1939	Metter v. Los Angeles Examiner· Dissent†	35 Cal. App. 2d 304	76
1940	Brown v. Newby	39 Cal. App. 2d 615	62
1941	Rothstein v. Janss Investment Corp.	45 Cal. App. 2d 64	55
1943	Caminetti v. Imperial Mutual Life Insurance Co.· Dissent†	59 Cal. App. 2d 476	45
1943	People v. McDaniel	59 Cal. App. 2d 672	41
1936	People v. Romero	13 Cal. App. 2d 667	41
1949	Huetter v. Andrews	91 Cal. App. 2d 142	39
1944	People v. Talbott	65 Cal. App. 2d 654	35
1936	Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n v. Oil Well Supply Co.	12 Cal. App. 2d 265	34
1948	People v. Toledo	85 Cal. App. 2d 577	33
1942	Keogh v. Maulding	52 Cal. App. 2d 17	31
1951	Kuitems v. Covell	104 Cal. App. 2d 482	28
1956	Griffith v. Department of Public Works	141 Cal. App. 2d 376	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 791 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 William C. Doran on?: William C. Doran was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

Sources

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23 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).