Superior Court of California, County of Kern / Joined 2006 / Active

William D. Palmer

Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Kern

William D. Palmer is a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Kern (29 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), serving since 2006. They previously served on the Florida District Courts of Appeal. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Florida District Courts of Appeal	–	–
2006	Superior Court of California, County of Kern	–	–

Education

Boston College

Judicial Record

In our data, Palmer authored 609 published opinions for the court (2000–2018), plus 14 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Simon v. Celebration Co. (50 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. 335 of these were attributed to Palmer 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
2004	Simon v. Celebration Co.	883 So. 2d 826	50
2000	DD v. Dept. of Children and Families	773 So. 2d 615	31
2001	Hill v. Hooten	776 So. 2d 1004	26
2001	Doyle v. Doyle	789 So. 2d 499	24
2005	Quilling v. Price	894 So. 2d 1061	23
2006	Britt v. State	931 So. 2d 209	22
2011	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Curran· Dissent†	83 So. 3d 793	21
2006	Henry v. State†	920 So. 2d 1245	20
2003	Concepcion v. State	857 So. 2d 299	20
2002	Nationwide Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Hess	814 So. 2d 1240	20
2002	Lasco Enterprises, Inc. v. Kohlbrand	819 So. 2d 821	20
2004	Patt v. State	876 So. 2d 1278	19
2001	Coppola v. State	795 So. 2d 258	19
2008	Aspsoft, Inc. v. WebClay	983 So. 2d 761	18
2002	Lecorn v. State	832 So. 2d 818	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 627 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 Superior Court of California, County of Kern reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is William D. Palmer on?: William D. Palmer is a Judge of the Superior Court of California, County of Kern.

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