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 1989 / Served to 2002

Edward C. Voss

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Edward C. Voss was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Tenure: 1989–2002 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

The University of Texas at Austin
University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Voss authored 154 published opinions for the court (1989–2003), plus 15 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: In re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. JS-501568 (151 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. 61 of these were attributed to Voss 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
1994	In re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. JS-501568†	177 Ariz. 571	151
1996	State v. Dunlap	930 P.2d 518	108
1994	Sanborn v. Brooker & Wake Property Management, Inc.	874 P.2d 982	65
1990	Schwartz v. Farmers Ins. Co. of Arizona	800 P.2d 20	60
1994	Alaface v. National Investment Co.· Concurrence†	892 P.2d 1375	59
1997	Jennifer B. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	944 P.2d 68	58
1993	Piper v. Bear Medical Systems, Inc.	883 P.2d 407	50
1997	Linder v. Brown & Herrick· Concurrence†	943 P.2d 758	39
1998	State v. Vasko	971 P.2d 189	36
1996	Ashton-Blair v. Merrill	928 P.2d 1244	36
1996	State v. Palenkas	933 P.2d 1269	35
1996	Tellez v. Saban· Dissent†	933 P.2d 1233	35
1992	Blum v. STATE, DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS	829 P.2d 1247	35
1989	In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. JV-117258	788 P.2d 1235	35
1994	Deutsche Credit Corp. v. Case Power & Equipment Co.	876 P.2d 1190	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 176 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 Edward C. Voss on?: Edward C. Voss was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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13 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).