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

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

Court of Appeals of Arizona / Joined 2000 / Served to 2012

Ann A. Scott Timmer

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Ann A. Scott Timmer was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2012 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Timmer authored 102 published opinions for the court (2000–2012), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Lovitch v. Industrial Commission (175 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. 40 of these were attributed to Timmer 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
2002	Lovitch v. Industrial Commission†	202 Ariz. 102	175
2007	Marriage of Bell-Kilbourn v. Bell-Kilbourn	169 P.3d 111	96
2003	Golonka v. General Motors Corp.	65 P.3d 956	79
2002	State v. Thues	54 P.3d 368	72
2003	Standhardt v. Superior Court	77 P.3d 451	60
2004	Barrett v. Harris	86 P.3d 954	58
2010	County of La Paz v. Yakima Compost Co.	233 P.3d 1169	55
2012	Wang Electric, Inc. v. Smoke Tree Resort, LLC†	230 Ariz. 314	54
2012	Murphy Farrell Development, LLLP v. Sourant†	229 Ariz. 124	50
2012	State v. Thompson†	229 Ariz. 43	48
2003	Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission v. Fields	75 P.3d 1088	48
2000	Johnson v. Davis†	198 Ariz. 599	46
2001	In Re John M.	36 P.3d 772	44
2007	Mobilisa, Inc. v. Doe	170 P.3d 712	43
2012	Madison v. Groseth†	230 Ariz. 8	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 108 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 Court of Appeals of Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Ann A. Scott Timmer on?: Ann A. Scott Timmer was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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