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

Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 2012 / Active

Ann A. Scott Timmer

Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Ann A. Scott Timmer is a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1960 · age 66
Tenure: Since 2012 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Timmer authored 49 published opinions for the court (2006–2026), plus 5 dissents. Most cited: State of Arizona v. Shawna Forde (103 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. 48 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
2014	State of Arizona v. Shawna Forde†	233 Ariz. 543	103
2017	State of Arizona v. Joel Randu Escalante-Orozco†	241 Ariz. 254	102
2013	In the Matter of Lisa M. Aubuchon†	233 Ariz. 62	102
2014	State of Arizona v. Martin David Salazar-Mercado†	234 Ariz. 590	80
2015	Diana Glazer v. State of Arizona†	237 Ariz. 160	75
2016	State of Arizona v. Francisco L Encinas Valenzuela†	239 Ariz. 299	74
2014	State of Arizona Ex Rel. Montgomery v. Hrach Shilgevorkyan· Dissent†	234 Ariz. 343	64
2017	American Power Products, Inc. v. CSK Auto, Inc.· Dissent†	242 Ariz. 364	48
2013	State of Arizona v. Trent Christopher Benson†	232 Ariz. 452	47
2018	Susan Ryan v. napier/klein†	425 P.3d 230	46
2018	State of Arizona v. Erick Antonio Escalante†	425 P.3d 1078	36
2014	Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission v. Brain†	234 Ariz. 322	34
2013	In the Matter of Rachel R. Alexander†	232 Ariz. 1	28
2016	State of Arizona v. Robin Peoples†	240 Ariz. 244	24
2016	State of Arizona Ex Rel. Polk v. Hon. campbell/francis Frederick Kraps†	239 Ariz. 405	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 54 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 is Ann A. Scott Timmer on?: Ann A. Scott Timmer is a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

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13 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).