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

Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 2016 / Active

Clint Bolick

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Clint Bolick is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, serving since 2016. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2016 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2016	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bolick authored 16 published opinions for the court (2016–2019), plus 3 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Robert J Nicaise Jr v. Aparna Sundaram (142 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. 28 of these were attributed to Bolick 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
2019	Robert J Nicaise Jr v. Aparna Sundaram†	432 P.3d 925	142
2017	State of Arizona v. Darrel Peter Pandeli†	242 Ariz. 175	113
2017	David Stambaugh v. Mark Killian· Concurrence†	242 Ariz. 508	109
2017	State v. Don Jacob Havatone†	241 Ariz. 506	65
2016	State of Arizona v. Samkeita Jahveh Jurden†	239 Ariz. 526	48
2019	City of Surprise v. acc/lake Pleasant· Concurrence†	437 P.3d 865	47
2016	Premier Physicians Group, PLLC v. Navarro†	240 Ariz. 193	46
2019	Trisha A. v. Department of Child safety/l.A./l.A.· Dissent†	446 P.3d 380	35
2016	State of Arizona v. valencia/healer· Concurrence†	241 Ariz. 206	34
2017	State Ex Rel Brnovich v. City of tucson/dewit· Concurrence†	242 Ariz. 588	28
2019	State of Arizona v. Alan Matthew Champagne†	447 P.3d 297	22
2017	Dobson Bay Club II DD, LLC v. La Sonrisa De Siena, LLC· Dissent†	242 Ariz. 108	22
2017	Simpson v. Miller ex rel. County of Maricopa†	241 Ariz. 341	17
2016	Hall v. Elected Officials' Retirement Plan· Concurrence†	241 Ariz. 33	17
2017	State of Arizona v. Anthony Benard Primous†	242 Ariz. 221	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 28 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 Clint Bolick on?: Clint Bolick is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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10 years on the Supreme Court of Arizona. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).