Talk:List of justices of the Supreme Court of California

Add Armand Arabian

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

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

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

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
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

Bjhillis (talk) 01:06, 10 September 2017 (UTC)