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 1925 / Served to 1943

Alfred C. Lockwood

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Alfred C. Lockwood was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1925. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1875 · age 151
Tenure: 1925–1943 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1925	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lockwood authored 1,156 published opinions for the court (1924–1942), plus 20 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Kerby v. Luhrs (111 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. 29 of these were attributed to Lockwood 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
1934	Kerby v. Luhrs	36 P.2d 549	111
1936	Sullivan v. State of Arizona	55 P.2d 312	92
1937	Keefe v. State of Arizona	72 P.2d 425	85
1935	Ossic v. Verde Central Mines	49 P.2d 396	83
1926	Alabam's Freight Co. v. Hunt	242 P. 658	81
1937	Stewart v. Phoenix National Bank	64 P.2d 101	76
1931	Maricopa County Municipal Water Conservation District Number One v. Southwest Cotton Co.	4 P.2d 369	73
1938	New York Life Insurance v. McNeely	79 P.2d 948	68
1936	Ison v. Western Vegetable Distributors	59 P.2d 649	68
1937	Kinsey v. State of Arizona	65 P.2d 1141	67
1933	Pierce v. Phelps Dodge Corp.	26 P.2d 1017	65
1941	Red Rover Copper Co. v. Industrial Commission	118 P.2d 1102	60
1932	Salt River Valley Water Users' Ass'n v. Compton	8 P.2d 249	60
1925	Lawrence v. State	240 P. 863	60
1939	Corporation Commission v. Pacific Greyhound Lines	94 P.2d 443	59

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,189 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 Alfred C. Lockwood on?: Alfred C. Lockwood was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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17 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).