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 1964 / Served to 1965

Edward W. Scruggs

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Edward W. Scruggs was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1964. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1904 · age 122
Tenure: 1964–1965

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1964	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Scruggs authored 10 published opinions for the court (1964). Most cited: State v. Locks (31 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. 1 of these was attributed to Scruggs 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
1964	State v. Locks	397 P.2d 949	31
1964	State v. Cravin	395 P.2d 706	20
1964	State v. Cumbo	396 P.2d 11	18
1964	Ellsworth v. Layton	397 P.2d 450	9
1964	Arizona Corp. Commission v. Pacific Motor Trucking Co.	398 P.2d 114	6
1964	State v. Daniels	396 P.2d 4	4
1964	State v. Monks	395 P.2d 711	4
1964	Lockwood v. Mattingly	397 P.2d 64	3
1964	Tucker v. Green	396 P.2d 1	3
1964	Burns v. Superior Court†	97 Ariz. 112	1

Showing the 10 most-cited of 10 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 Edward W. Scruggs on?: Edward W. Scruggs was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

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Joined the court in 1964. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).