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 2001 / Served to 2011

Daniel A. Barker

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Daniel A. Barker was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2011 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Barker authored 111 published opinions for the court (2001–2012), plus 6 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Arizona Department of Economic Security v. Matthew L. (182 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. 33 of these were attributed to Barker 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
2010	Arizona Department of Economic Security v. Matthew L.	225 P.3d 604	182
2007	Christy C. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security†	214 Ariz. 445	147
2002	Bike Fashion Corp. v. Kramer· Concurrence†	46 P.3d 431	73
2009	Hart v. Hart	204 P.3d 441	67
2005	Monica C. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	118 P.3d 37	59
2002	Welch-Doden v. Roberts	42 P.3d 1166	55
2005	Harrington v. Pulte Home Corp.	119 P.3d 1044	48
2002	In Re Maricopa County Superior Court Number MH 2001-001139	54 P.3d 380	48
2010	Aztar Corp. v. U.S. Fire Insurance†	223 Ariz. 463	46
2007	Mobilisa, Inc. v. Doe· Dissent†	170 P.3d 712	43
2003	State v. Sullivan	69 P.3d 1006	43
2007	Marriage of Breitbart-Napp v. Napp	163 P.3d 1024	41
2002	State v. Rosas-Hernandez	42 P.3d 1177	40
2008	In Re Estate of Newman	196 P.3d 863	39
2002	Blake v. Schwartz	42 P.3d 6	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 125 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 Daniel A. Barker on?: Daniel A. Barker was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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10 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).