Talk:List of justices of the Supreme Court of California
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Add Armand Arabian
[edit]Added Wiki page for Armand Arabian. There are now less than 20 bios remaining to be completed.Bjhillis (talk) 20:47, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
Added several more bios. 15 bios remaining.Bjhillis (talk) 19:20, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Added bio for Jesse W. Curtis Sr.Bjhillis (talk) 22:32, 21 June 2017 (UTC) Completed Jesse W. Carter bio.Bjhillis (talk) 02:57, 23 June 2017 (UTC) Completed bio for M. C. Sloss, 13 bios remaining to do.Bjhillis (talk) 18:54, 28 June 2017 (UTC) Added bio for Warren Olney Jr.Bjhillis (talk) 19:32, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
Made improvements to Frank M. Angellotti and William P. Lawlor, adding detail and cites.Bjhillis (talk) 19:22, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
Added/upgraded Samuel B. McKee, Joseph B. Crockett, and Oscar L. Shafter bios.Bjhillis (talk) 14:18, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
Added infoboxes and succession boxes to various justices, based on the table in the CSCHS newsletter. Add new page for Ralph C. Harrison.Bjhillis (talk) 23:11, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
Chief Justice bios that need work
[edit]15 of the Chief Justice bios need substantial editing and improvement, as follows:
- Donald Wright, 24th CJ
- Phil S. Gibson, 22nd CJ
- William H. Waste, 21st CJ
- Louis Wescott Myers, 20th CJ
- Lucien Shaw, 18th CJ
- Matt Sullivan, 16th CJ
- William H. Beatty, 15th CJ
- Robert F. Morrison, 13th CJ
- William T. Wallace, 12th CJ
- Royal Sprague, 11th CJ
- Augustus Rhodes, 10th CJ
- Silas Sanderson, 7th CJ
- Warner Cope, 6th CJ
- Hugh Murray, 3rd CJ
- Henry A. Lyons, 2nd CJ
Bjhillis (talk) 19:21, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
I upgraded most of these with infobox and succession boxes, added cites and narrative. But still a lot of work to do, e.g, David S. Terry still has the cn flags. Eight more associate justice bios left to do. And most of the existing associate justice bios are still skeletons that need work.Bjhillis (talk) 14:15, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
Citations in lists of lawyers
[edit]I noticed someone hung a Citations Needed flag on the page. This list mirrors an official list of past and present justices from the California courts. Plus, each entry on this list of 100 or so judges links to Wiki pages, so presumably adequate citation is provided on those underlying pages. Suggest we remove the flag.
On the issue generally of citation in lists of lawyers, see Talk:List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States#Some_final_observations_on_numbers_of_clerks_and_a_count_of_law_schools, the list of U.S. Supreme Court clerks has 2,250 entries and 489 Wiki pages, or roughly 20%. The other 80% of the entries do not have citations.Bjhillis (talk) 13:39, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
Sortable table of Wiki page stats
[edit]The table below presents the status of the California Supreme Court justices' Wiki pages. It is sortable by file size, number of footnotes, Wiki rating, and number of visits. The purpose of the table is to show the pages that are of greatest interest, and those that need additional editing.
Name | Assumed office | Vacated Office | Wiki Rating | Page length (bytes) | # Footnotes | Avg daily visits |
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S. Clinton Hastings* | December 22, 1849 | January 1, 1852 | GA Class | 19,962 | 23 | 13 |
Nathaniel Bennett | December 26, 1849 | October 3, 1851 | Start | 27,418 | 47 | 1 |
Henry A. Lyons* | December 26, 1849 | March 31, 1852 | Start | 15,096 | 21 | 2 |
Hugh Murray* | October 11, 1851 | September 18, 1857 | Start | 9,257 | 14 | 2 |
Solomon Heydenfeldt* | January 20, 1852 | January 6, 1857 | Start | 9,987 | 16 | 2 |
Alexander O. Anderson | April 6, 1852 | November 2, 1852 | Start | 20,704 | 26 | 4 |
Alexander Wells | January 3, 1853 | October 31, 1854 | Unrated | 8,961 | 15 | 5 |
Charles Henry Bryan | November 24, 1854 | November 15, 1855 | Stub | 16,556 | 27 | 2 |
David S. Terry* | November 15, 1855 | September 12, 1859 | Start | 36,486 | 64 | 19 |
Peter Hardeman Burnett | January 13, 1857 | October 12, 1857 | B Class | 18,986 | 13 | 40 |
Stephen Johnson Field* | October 13, 1857 | May 20, 1863 | C Class | 19,882 | 18 | 52 |
Joseph G. Baldwin | October 2, 1858 | January 2, 1862 | Unrated | 21,424 | 33 | 2 |
Warner Cope | September 20, 1859 | January 2, 1864 | Stub | 11,464 | 18 | 2 |
Edward Norton | December 18, 1861 | January 2, 1864 | Start | 15,598 | 26 | 1 |
Edwin B. Crocker | May 21, 1863 | January 2, 1864 | Start | 13,339 | 18 | 6 |
John Currey | January 2, 1864 | January 6, 1868 | Start | 11,260 | 15 | 2 |
Augustus Rhodes | January 2, 1864 | January 5, 1880 | Stub | 14,121 | 26 | 3 |
Silas Sanderson* | January 2, 1864 | January 4, 1870 | Start | 15,581 | 23 | 2 |
Lorenzo Sawyer | January 2, 1864 | January 10, 1870 | Start | 16,412 | 19 | 9 |
Oscar L. Shafter | January 2, 1864 | December 11, 1867 | C class | 13,772 | 17 | 1 |
Joseph B. Crockett | December 1867 | January 5, 1880 | Start | 11,557 | 15 | 3 |
Royal T. Sprague | January 6, 1868 | February 24, 1872 | Stub | 7,101 | 12 | 2 |
William T. Wallace | January 10, 1870 | January 5, 1880 | Start | 22,303 | 35 | 6 |
Jackson Temple* | January 10, 1870 | January 1, 1872 | Stub | 23,063 | 39 | 2 |
Addison Niles* | January 1, 1872 | January 5, 1880 | Stub | 12,205 | 21 | 3 |
Isaac S. Belcher | March 4, 1872 | January 5, 1874 | Start | 16,599 | 29 | 3 |
Elisha W. McKinstry | January 5, 1874 | October 1, 1888 | Start | 17,522 | 29 | 1 |
Robert F. Morrison* | January 5, 1880 | March 2, 1887 | Start | 10,052 | 15 | 2 |
Samuel B. McKee | January 5, 1880 | January 3, 1887 | C Class | 20,858 | 33 | 1 |
Milton H. Myrick | January 5, 1880 | January 3, 1887 | Unrated | 20,978 | 35 | 1 |
Erskine M. Ross | January 5, 1880 | October 1, 1886 | Start | 13,831 | 18 | 6 |
John Sharpstein | January 5, 1880 | December 28, 1892 | Start | 17,107 | 27 | 1 |
James D. Thornton | January 5, 1880 | January 5, 1891 | C Class | 19,209 | 28 | 1 |
Jackson Temple | December 13, 1886 | June 25, 1889 | Stub | 23,063 | 39 | 2 |
Van R. Paterson | December 22, 1886 | May 3, 1894 | Stub | 13,756 | 26 | 5 |
Thomas Bard McFarland | December 28, 1886 | September 1908 | Start | 17,980 | 28 | 1 |
Niles Searls* | April 20, 1887 | November 6, 1888 | B Class | 12,113 | 16 | 2 |
John D. Works | October 2, 1888 | January 5, 1891 | Start | 16,283 | 26 | 5 |
William H. Beatty* | November 6, 1888 | August 4, 1914 | Stub | 15,916 | 23 | 2 |
Charles N. Fox | June 25, 1889 | January 7, 1895 | Start | 17,940 | 31 | 1 |
John J. De Haven | December 18, 1890 | January 7, 1895 | Start | 15,724 | 25 | 2 |
Charles H. Garoute | December 19, 1890 | January 5, 1903 | Start | 10,992 | 18 | 0 |
Ralph C. Harrison | December 20, 1890 | January 5, 1903 | Start | 19,008 | 31 | 1 |
William F. Fitzgerald | February 2, 1893 | January 7, 1895 | C Class | 14,021 | 17 | 2 |
William C. Van Fleet | May 7, 1894 | January 3, 1899 | Start | 8,947 | 10 | 1 |
Frederick W. Henshaw | December 29, 1894 | January 1, 1918 | Start | 20,273 | 35 | 1 |
Jackson Temple | January 7, 1895 | December 25, 1902 | Stub | 23,063 | 39 | 2 |
Walter Van Dyke | December 22, 1898 | December 25, 1905 | Stub | 14,147 | 25 | 2 |
Frank M. Angellotti* | December 11, 1902 | November 15, 1921 | Start | 10,646 | 15 | 3 |
Lucien Shaw* | December 11, 1902 | January 1923 | Stub | 9,119 | 13 | 2 |
William G. Lorigan | January 7, 1903 | January 1919 | Unrated | 13,620 | 24 | 1 |
M. C. Sloss | December 19, 1906 | March 1, 1919 | Start | 14,101 | 27 | 1 |
Henry A. Melvin | September 28, 1908 | December 1920 | Start | 15,887 | 24 | 1 |
Matt Sullivan* | August 22, 1914 | January 4, 1915 | Start | 8,887 | 14 | 2 |
William P. Lawlor | January 3, 1915 | July 25, 1926 | Stub | 13,109 | 21 | 1 |
Curtis D. Wilbur* | January 1, 1918 | March 19, 1924 | Start | 29,106 | 56 | 22 |
Thomas J. Lennon | December 20, 1918 | August 14, 1926 | Start | 13,346 | 20 | 1 |
Warren Olney Jr. | March 1, 1919 | July 1921 | C Class | 16,782 | 26 | 2 |
William A. Sloane | May 15, 1920 | January 1923 | Start | 10,929 | 15 | 1 |
Charles A. Shurtleff | July 2, 1921 | December 1922 | Unrated | 10,324 | 16 | 4 |
William H. Waste* | November 25, 1921 | June 6, 1940 | Stub | 13,439 | 21 | 3 |
Terry W. Ward | December 19, 1922 | January 8, 1923 | C Class | 9,802 | 13 | 0 |
Frank H. Kerrigan | January 8, 1923 | February 11, 1924 | Start | 25,050 | 43 | 1 |
Emmett Seawell | January 8, 1923 | July 7, 1939 | Stub | 12,212 | 23 | 6 |
Louis Wescott Myers* | January 15, 1923 | January 1, 1926 | Start | 12,212 | 23 | 6 |
John E. Richards | February 11, 1924 | December 1932 | Start | 9,714 | 15 | 2 |
John W. Shenk | April 14, 1924 | August 3, 1959 | Unrated | 15,122 | 17 | 4 |
Jesse W. Curtis Sr. | January 1, 1926 | January 1, 1945 | C Class | 13,700 | 22 | 1 |
Frank G. Finlayson | October 4, 1926 | December 11, 1926 | Stub | 17,368 | 31 | 1 |
Jeremiah F. Sullivan | November 22, 1926 | December 1926 | Unrated | 13,930 | 25 | 1 |
John W. Preston | December 27, 1926 | October 6, 1935 | Start | 9,257 | 18 | 1 |
William Langdon | January 4, 1927 | August 1939 | Stub | 13,952 | 18 | 2 |
Ira F. Thompson | December 31, 1932 | August 4, 1937 | Start | 14,391 | 21 | 1 |
Nathaniel P. Conrey | October 6, 1935 | November 1936 | Start | 12,001 | 16 | 1 |
Douglas L. Edmonds | November 23, 1936 | December 31, 1955 | Stub | 12,689 | 25 | 5 |
Frederick W. Houser | October 1, 1937 | October 12, 1942 | Stub | 14,420 | 26 | 1 |
Jesse W. Carter | September 12, 1939 | March 15, 1959 | Stub | 11,018 | 16 | 2 |
Phil S. Gibson* | October 2, 1939 | August 30, 1964 | Start | 21,911 | 38 | 16 |
Roger J. Traynor* | August 13, 1940 | January 31, 1970 | Start | 28,755 | 35 | 13 |
B. Rey Schauer | December 18, 1942 | September 15, 1964 | Unrated | 8,951 | 14 | 1 |
Homer R. Spence | January 2, 1945 | June 1, 1960 | Stub | 14,238 | 24 | 2 |
Marshall F. McComb | January 3, 1956 | May 3, 1977 | C Class | 18,373 | 28 | 3 |
Raymond E. Peters | March 25, 1959 | January 2, 1973 | Stub | 10,955 | 18 | 2 |
Thomas P. White | August 25, 1959 | October 31, 1962 | Start | 11,937 | 15 | 1 |
Maurice T. Dooling Jr. | June 30, 1960 | June 30, 1962 | C Class | 14,439 | 24 | 1 |
Mathew Tobriner | July 2, 1962 | January 20, 1981 | Start | 24,143 | 38 | 5 |
Paul Peek | December 2, 1962 | December 16, 1966 | Start | 11,489 | 12 | 2 |
Stanley Mosk | September 1, 1964 | June 19, 2001 | Unrated | 26,340 | 44 | 26 |
Louis H. Burke | November 20, 1964 | November 30, 1974 | C Class | 15,910 | 28 | 2 |
Raymond L. Sullivan | December 20, 1966 | January 19, 1977 | C Class | 11,053 | 19 | 3 |
Donald Wright* | April 17, 1970 | February 1, 1977 | Start | 10,959 | 13 | 6 |
William P. Clark, Jr. | March 23, 1973 | March 24, 1981 | Start | 19,427 | 19 | 22 |
Frank K. Richardson | December 2, 1974 | December 2, 1983 | C Class | 16,412 | 14 | 2 |
Wiley Manuel | March 24, 1977 | January 5, 1981 | Stub | 13,456 | 26 | 8 |
Rose Bird* | March 26, 1977 | January 5, 1987 | C Class | 13,513 | 14 | 40 |
Frank C. Newman | July 16, 1977 | December 13, 1982 | C Class | 17,380 | 13 | 2 |
Otto Kaus | July 21, 1981 | October 16, 1985 | Start | 11,408 | 12 | 11 |
Allen Broussard | July 22, 1981 | August 31, 1991 | Start | 16,007 | 19 | 10 |
Cruz Reynoso | February 11, 1982 | January 5, 1987 | Start | 53,107 | 81 | 13 |
Joseph Grodin | December 27, 1982 | January 5, 1987 | Start | 17,915 | 17 | 6 |
Malcolm M. Lucas* | April 6, 1984 | May 1, 1996 | Start | 13,322 | 16 | 7 |
Edward A. Panelli | December 24, 1985 | May 3, 1994 | Stub | 8,444 | 14 | 8 |
John Arguelles | March 18, 1987 | March 1, 1989 | C Class | 10,036 | 18 | 3 |
David Eagleson | March 18, 1987 | January 6, 1991 | Start | 9,987 | 14 | 3 |
Marcus Kaufman | March 18, 1987 | January 31, 1990 | Stub | 13,145 | 13 | 6 |
Joyce L. Kennard | April 5, 1989 | April 5, 2014 | Start | 12,232 | 14 | 8 |
Armand Arabian | March 1, 1990 | March 1, 1996 | C Class | 13,920 | 28 | 6 |
Marvin R. Baxter | January 7, 1991 | January 5, 2015 | Start | 8,953 | 12 | 23 |
Ronald M. George* | September 3, 1991 | January 3, 2011 | GA Class | 14,594 | 20 | 18 |
Kathryn Werdegar | May 3, 1994 | August 31, 2017 | Stub | 15,302 | 17 | 21 |
Janice Rogers Brown | May 2, 1996 | June 30, 2005 | B Class | 25,801 | 22 | 67 |
Ming Chin | March 1, 1996 | Present | Start | 12,183 | 18 | 13 |
Carlos R. Moreno | October 18, 2001 | February 28, 2011 | Start | 16,300 | 18 | 17 |
Carol Corrigan | January 4, 2006 | Present | Stub | 9,048 | 15 | 15 |
Tani Cantil-Sakauye* | January 3, 2011 | Present | Start | 25,655 | 49 | 81 |
Goodwin Liu | September 1, 2011 | Present | B Class | 30,156 | 50 | 50 |
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar | January 5, 2015 | Present | C Class | 17,939 | 28 | 40 |
Leondra Kruger | January 5, 2015 | Present | Unrated | 11,368 | 19 | 24 |
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