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 1974 / Served to 1988

Donald F. Froeb

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Donald F. Froeb was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1930–1997
Tenure: 1974–1988 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

Williams College
Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Froeb authored 286 published opinions for the court (1970–1988), plus 23 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Wagstaff (96 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. 124 of these were attributed to Froeb 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
1988	State v. Wagstaff	775 P.2d 1130	96
1981	Wisner v. Wisner· Concurrence†	631 P.2d 115	63
1983	Mammo v. State	675 P.2d 1347	60
1975	Barnum v. Rural Fire Protection Company	537 P.2d 618	49
1976	Landgraff v. Wagner	546 P.2d 26	47
1983	Brown v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.· Concurrence†	667 P.2d 750	45
1976	Jarvis v. Jarvis	553 P.2d 1251	41
1979	Chavez v. Tolleson Elementary School District	595 P.2d 1017	38
1979	State v. Stone	594 P.2d 558	36
1977	Yates v. Industrial Commission	568 P.2d 432	32
1985	State v. Suniga· Dissent†	701 P.2d 1197	31
1979	State v. Reese	603 P.2d 104	31
1985	FLOOD CONTROL DIST. OF MARICOPA CTY. v. Conlin	712 P.2d 979	30
1984	Huskie v. Ames Bros. Motor & Supply Co.	678 P.2d 977	30
1982	Brown Wholesale Electric Co. v. Safeco Insurance Co. of America	659 P.2d 1299	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 322 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 F. Froeb on?: Donald F. Froeb was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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14 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).