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 1982 / Served to 1986

Bruce E. Meyerson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Bruce E. Meyerson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 1982–1986 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Meyerson authored 78 published opinions for the court (1982–1987), plus 8 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Schweiger v. China Doll Restaurant, Inc. (247 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. 31 of these were attributed to Meyerson 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
1983	Schweiger v. China Doll Restaurant, Inc.	673 P.2d 927	247
1984	Adams v. Valley Nat. Bank of Ariz.	678 P.2d 525	99
1983	In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. A-25525	667 P.2d 228	86
1986	Phillips v. Clancy	733 P.2d 300	74
1983	Amfac Distribution Corp. v. Miller	673 P.2d 795	60
1982	Price v. Price	654 P.2d 46	44
1983	Connor v. Cal-Az Properties, Inc.	668 P.2d 896	42
1983	Gaunt v. Motor Vehicle Div., Dept. of Transp.	666 P.2d 524	39
1983	Ferris v. Hawkins	660 P.2d 1256	38
1983	Jordan v. Sunnyslope Appliance Propane & Plumbing Supplies Co.	660 P.2d 1236	33
1983	Marlar v. State	666 P.2d 504	31
1984	Spurlock v. Santa Fe Pacific Railroad	694 P.2d 299	28
1984	Koepke v. Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc.	682 P.2d 425	27
1984	DeSchaaf v. Indus. Com'n of Ariz.	686 P.2d 1288	26
1985	State v. Whitney	726 P.2d 210	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 91 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 Bruce E. Meyerson on?: Bruce E. Meyerson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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4 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).