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 1965 / Served to 1967

Donald Daughton

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Donald Daughton was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1965–1967 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Daughton authored 3 published opinions for the court (1965–1967), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Richardson v. Casey (6 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. 3 of these were attributed to Daughton 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
1967	Richardson v. Casey	430 P.2d 720	6
1966	Peterson v. First National Bank· Dissent†	4 Ariz. App. 94	3
1965	State v. Byrd†	2 Ariz. App. 304	2
1966	Hitching Post Lodge, Inc. v. Kerwin†	3 Ariz. App. 94	1

Showing the 4 most-cited of 4 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 Donald Daughton on?: Donald Daughton was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

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2 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).