How do judges of the Supreme Court of Arizona reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 1919 / Served to 1921

Albert C. Baker

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Albert C. Baker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1919. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1845 · age 181
Tenure: 1919–1921 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1919	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Baker authored 64 published opinions for the court (1919–1928), plus 1 dissent and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Davis v. Boggs (56 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. 66 of these were attributed to Baker 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	Davis v. Boggs†	22 Ariz. 497	56
1921	Moon v. State†	22 Ariz. 418	51
1920	State v. Sharp†	21 Ariz. 424	39
1919	Baker v. Maseeh†	20 Ariz. 201	36
1920	Consolidated Arizona Smelting Co. v. Egich· Concurrence†	22 Ariz. 543	35
1928	B.W.L. Sam v. State· Dissent	265 P. 622	34
1919	Benton v. Regeser†	20 Ariz. 273	32
1919	Harper v. Tipple†	21 Ariz. 41	31
1921	Pass v. Stephens†	22 Ariz. 461	27
1920	S. H. Kress & Co. v. Evans†	21 Ariz. 442	27
1920	Leon v. State†	21 Ariz. 418	27
1919	Lynch v. Arizona Enterprise Mining Co.†	20 Ariz. 250	26
1919	Clark v. Boyce· Concurrence†	20 Ariz. 544	24
1921	State v. Superior Court of Pinal County†	22 Ariz. 452	22
1921	Industrial Commission v. Crisman· Concurrence†	22 Ariz. 579	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 69 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 Supreme Court of Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Albert C. Baker on?: Albert C. Baker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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2 years on the Supreme Court of Arizona. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).