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 1919 / Served to 1921

William H. Waste

Justice, California Court of Appeal

William H. Waste was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1919. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1919–1921 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1919	California Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Waste authored 182 published opinions for the court (1919–1930), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: McKevitt v. City of Sacramento (49 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. 1 of these was attributed to Waste 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
1921	McKevitt v. City of Sacramento	203 P. 132	49
1919	Grantham v. Ordway	182 P. 73	40
1920	Ross v. San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways Co.	191 P. 703	29
1921	Layton v. New York Life Insurance	202 P. 958	28
1920	People v. Malley	194 P. 48	27
1920	Monk v. Morgan· Concurrence	192 P. 1042	24
1921	Roberts v. Southern Pacific Co.	201 P. 958	23
1919	Miller v. Boyle	184 P. 421	23
1920	McCahan v. McCahan	190 P. 460	22
1920	Dibble v. San Joaquin Light & Power Corp.	190 P. 198	22
1919	Anthony v. Tarpley	187 P. 779	22
1921	O'Neill v. Williams	199 P. 870	20
1920	People v. Bruno	193 P. 511	20
1920	Lampton v. Davis Standard Bread Co.	291 P. 710	20
1919	Tower v. Wilson	188 P. 87	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 187 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 H. Waste on?: William H. Waste was a Justice of the California Court of Appeal.

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2 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).