How do judges of the Supreme Court of Arizona reach the bench?

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

Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 1953 / Served to 1959

Dudley W. Windes

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Dudley W. Windes was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1889–1972
Tenure: 1953–1959 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Windes authored 182 published opinions for the court (1924–1964), plus 10 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Layton v. Rocha (117 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. 41 of these were attributed to Windes 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
1962	Layton v. Rocha	368 P.2d 444	117
1949	Hernandez v. Frohmiller	204 P.2d 854	84
1953	Bristor v. Cheatham†	255 P.2d 173	73
1954	Jeune v. Del E. Webb Const. Co.	269 P.2d 723	69
1957	Farmers Insurance Exchange v. Henderson	313 P.2d 404	68
1954	State v. Mandel	278 P.2d 413	67
1955	Marsin v. Udall	279 P.2d 721	61
1953	Schrey v. Allison Steel Mfg. Co.	255 P.2d 604	59
1954	Savage v. Boies	272 P.2d 349	52
1954	Gilliland v. Rodriquez	268 P.2d 334	51
1956	Simms v. Round Valley Light & Power Company	294 P.2d 378	47
1955	McCluskey v. Sparks	291 P.2d 791	46
1956	MacKey v. Spangler	301 P.2d 1026	44
1956	Downs v. Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc.	297 P.2d 339	44
1954	Arizona Public Service Co. v. Southern Union Gas Co.	265 P.2d 435	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 196 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 was Dudley W. Windes on?: Dudley W. Windes was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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5 years on the Supreme Court of Arizona. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).