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 1955 / Served to 1982

Fred C. Struckmeyer Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Fred C. Struckmeyer Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1912–1992
Tenure: 1955–1982 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Struckmeyer authored 665 published opinions for the court (1924–1982), plus 69 dissents and 36 concurrences. Most cited: Noble v. National American Life Insurance (232 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. 190 of these were attributed to Struckmeyer 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
1981	Noble v. National American Life Insurance· Dissent†	624 P.2d 866	232
1969	State v. Dessureault	453 P.2d 951	227
1964	State v. Willits	393 P.2d 274	207
1981	State v. Tison	633 P.2d 335	175
1981	State v. Tison	633 P.2d 355	168
1977	Grimm v. Arizona Board of Pardons & Paroles· Concurrence†	564 P.2d 1227	127
1981	State v. Christensen	628 P.2d 580	126
1965	State v. Schantz	403 P.2d 521	126
1980	State v. Jones	610 P.2d 51	123
1965	Yeazell v. Copins	402 P.2d 541	123
1964	City of Mesa v. Killingsworth	394 P.2d 410	120
1964	State v. Birmingham	392 P.2d 775	120
1970	Kilpatrick v. Superior Court	466 P.2d 18	119
1966	State v. Kruchten	417 P.2d 510	109
1981	State v. Greenawalt	624 P.2d 828	107

Showing the 15 most-cited of 770 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 Fred C. Struckmeyer Jr. on?: Fred C. Struckmeyer Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

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27 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).