# California Reporter of Decisions

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The [California](/source/California) '''Reporter of Decisions''' is a [reporter of decisions](/source/reporter_of_decisions) supervised by the [Supreme Court of California](/source/Supreme_Court_of_California) responsible for editing and publishing the published opinions of the [judiciary of California](/source/judiciary_of_California). The Supreme Court's decisions are published in official [reporters](/source/law_report) known as ''California Reports'' and the decisions of the Courts of Appeal are published in the ''California Appellate Reports''.

== List of Reporters ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Name !! Term
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| [Edward Norton](/source/Edward_Norton_(judge)) || 1850–1851
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| [Nathaniel Bennett](/source/Nathaniel_Bennett) || 1851–1852
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| Rufus A. Lockwood || 1852
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| H. P. Hepburn || 1852–1854
|-
| Wm. Gouverneur Morris || 1855
|-
| H. Toler Booraem || 1856–1858
|-
| Harvey Lee || 1858–1859
|-
| John B. Harmon || 1859–1860
|-
| David T. Bagley || 1860–1862
|-
| Curtis J. Hillyer || 1862–1863
|-
| Charles A. Tuttle || 1863–1867
|-
| J. E. Hale || 1867–1869
|-
| Tod Robinson || 1869
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| R. Aug. Thompson || 1870–1871
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| Charles A. Tuttle || 1871–1878
|-
| G. J. Carpenter || 1878
|-
| George H. Smith || 1879–1882
|-
| [W. W. Cope](/source/Warner_Cope) || 1883–1887
|-
| C. P. Pomeroy || 1887–1917
|-
| Randolph V. Whiting || 1917–1940
|-
| [B. E. Witkin](/source/Bernard_E._Witkin) || 1940–1949
|-
| Wm. Nankervis, Jr. || 1949–1969
|-
| Robert E. Formichi || 1969–1989
|-
| Edward W. Jessen || 1989–2014
|-
| [Lawrence W. Striley](/source/Lawrence_Striley) || 2014–present
|}

== References ==
* {{cite web|title=In Writing With Reasons Stated: The Reporter of Decisions and the California Official Reports|author=California Judicial Center Library|year=2004|accessdate=5 June 2013|url=http://library.courtinfo.ca.gov/included/docs/exhibits/05_in_writing.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430195422/http://library.courtinfo.ca.gov/included/docs/exhibits/05_in_writing.pdf|archive-date=30 April 2009|url-status=dead}}

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