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 1980 / Served to 1987

Ben C. Birdsall

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Ben C. Birdsall was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1980–1987 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Birdsall authored 318 published opinions for the court (1969–1986). Most cited: Reben v. Ely (50 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. 113 of these were attributed to Birdsall 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
1985	Reben v. Ely	705 P.2d 1360	50
1981	Coronado Co. v. Jacome's Department Store, Inc.	629 P.2d 553	47
1984	Nastri v. Wood Bros. Homes, Inc.	690 P.2d 158	45
1981	State v. Sanchez	635 P.2d 1217	41
1982	State v. Politte	664 P.2d 661	38
1984	Rhoads v. Harvey Publications, Inc.	700 P.2d 840	33
1981	State v. Aguirre	633 P.2d 1047	32
1984	State v. Hutchinson	688 P.2d 209	31
1985	In Re the Appeal in Pima County Juvenile Action No. J-78632	711 P.2d 1200	30
1982	Bryan v. Bryan	645 P.2d 1267	28
1983	Wheel Estate Corp. v. Webb	679 P.2d 529	27
1985	Musselman v. Southwinds Realty, Inc.	704 P.2d 814	26
1984	State v. Flores	682 P.2d 1136	26
1981	State v. Ballantyne	623 P.2d 857	25
1983	Birds International Corp. v. Arizona Maintenance Co.	662 P.2d 1052	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 318 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 Ben C. Birdsall on?: Ben C. Birdsall was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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7 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).