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 1995 / Served to 2009

Arthur John Pelander

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Arthur John Pelander was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2009 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona
University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Pelander authored 160 published opinions for the court (1995–2009), plus 3 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Jesus M. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security (687 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. 34 of these were attributed to Pelander 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	Jesus M. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	53 P.3d 203	687
1998	Bothell v. Two Point Acres, Inc.†	965 P.2d 47	124
2007	State v. Swoopes	166 P.3d 945	123
2004	Orfaly v. Tucson Symphony Society	99 P.3d 1030	118
2005	Fragoso v. Fell	111 P.3d 1027	114
2005	State v. Ramsey	124 P.3d 756	90
2007	Ruesga v. Kindred Nursing Centers West, L.L.C.	161 P.3d 1253	89
2005	Jennifer G. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security†	211 Ariz. 450	89
2007	Odom v. Farmers Ins. Co. of Arizona	169 P.3d 120	87
2005	Willie G. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security†	211 Ariz. 231	85
1996	Logerquist v. Danforth	932 P.2d 281	84
1995	Hawkins v. State, Dept. of Economic SEC.	900 P.2d 1236	82
2005	Miller v. Hehlen	104 P.3d 193	80
2000	State v. Rosengren	14 P.3d 303	76
2004	Mitchell v. Gamble	86 P.3d 944	75

Showing the 15 most-cited of 166 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 Arthur John Pelander on?: Arthur John Pelander was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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14 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).