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 1989

D L. Greer

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

D L. Greer was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1923 · age 103
Tenure: 1982–1989 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Greer authored 97 published opinions for the court (1967–1989), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Rancho Pescado, Inc. v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance (98 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. 36 of these were attributed to Greer 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
1984	Rancho Pescado, Inc. v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance	680 P.2d 1235	98
1987	Anson v. American Motors Corp.	747 P.2d 581	63
1984	Hall v. Romero	685 P.2d 757	60
1983	Lake Havasu City v. Mohave County	675 P.2d 1371	48
1985	Standage v. Standage	711 P.2d 612	37
1989	State v. Flores	772 P.2d 589	31
1983	State v. Roberts	677 P.2d 280	28
1988	Franko v. Mitchell	762 P.2d 1345	27
1987	Hunt Investment Co. v. Eliot	742 P.2d 858	25
1982	State v. Clifton	656 P.2d 634	24
1987	Main I Ltd. Partnership v. Venture Capital Construction & Development Corp.	741 P.2d 1234	22
1987	State v. Govan	744 P.2d 712	20
1982	State v. Williams	656 P.2d 1272	20
1989	Avila v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	772 P.2d 600	19
1983	State v. Roberts†	138 Ariz. 117	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 102 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 D L. Greer on?: D L. Greer 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).