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

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

Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 1996 / Served to 2005

Charles E. Jones

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Charles E. Jones was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona (7 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1996. They previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1996–2005 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles	–	–
1996	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 77 published opinions for the court (1925–2005), plus 4 dissents and 30 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Bass (586 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. 43 of these were attributed to Jones 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
2000	State v. Bass	12 P.3d 796	586
2004	State v. Moody· Concurrence†	94 P.3d 1119	424
2002	Wells Fargo Bank v. Arizona Laborers, Teamsters & Cement Masons Local No. 395 Pension Trust Fund	38 P.3d 12	231
2002	State v. Spreitz	39 P.3d 525	224
2004	State v. Davolt	84 P.3d 456	223
1997	State v. Trostle· Dissent†	951 P.2d 869	187
2000	State v. Hoskins†	14 P.3d 997	180
1998	Fidelity Security Life Insurance v. State	954 P.2d 580	162
1997	State v. Spreitz	945 P.2d 1260	122
1998	Sears v. Hull· Concurrence†	961 P.2d 1013	107
1997	State v. Lee	944 P.2d 1204	105
2003	State v. Tucker· Concurrence†	68 P.3d 110	101
2003	State v. Hickman· Concurrence†	68 P.3d 418	100
1997	State v. Terrazas· Concurrence†	944 P.2d 1194	96
2002	State v. Canez	42 P.3d 564	94

Showing the 15 most-cited of 111 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 was Charles E. Jones on?: Charles E. Jones was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

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9 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).