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 1992 / Served to 2002

Frederick J. Martone

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Frederick J. Martone was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1992. He earned a law degree from Harvard University in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 1992–2002 · 9 yrs
Education: College of the Holy Cross 1965 · Harvard

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame
College of the Holy Cross	B.S.	1965
Harvard University	LL.M.	1975

Judicial Record

In our data, Martone authored 30 published opinions for the court (1992–2002), plus 48 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Bass (586 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. 120 of these were attributed to Martone 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
2000	State v. Bass· Dissent†	12 P.3d 796	586
2002	Wells Fargo Bank v. Arizona Laborers, Teamsters & Cement Masons Local No. 395 Pension Trust Fund· Concurrence†	38 P.3d 12	231
1992	State v. Salazar· Concurrence†	844 P.2d 566	207
1998	Doe v. Roe· Concurrence†	955 P.2d 951	160
1998	State v. Greene†	967 P.2d 106	158
1994	State v. Gallegos· Concurrence†	870 P.2d 1097	158
1995	Gust, Rosenfeld & Henderson v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America· Concurrence†	898 P.2d 964	154
1995	Maxwell v. Fidelity Financial Services, Inc.· Concurrence†	907 P.2d 51	128
1993	State v. Stuard· Dissent†	863 P.2d 881	121
2001	State v. Ring· Concurrence†	25 P.3d 1139	116
1996	State v. LeBlanc· Concurrence†	924 P.2d 441	110
1996	State v. Smith· Concurrence†	910 P.2d 1	108
1994	Jett v. City of Tucson· Dissent†	882 P.2d 426	103
1994	Father in Pima County Juvenile Action No. S-114487 v. Adam· Concurrence†	179 Ariz. 86	102
1999	State v. Medina· Concurrence†	975 P.2d 94	98

Showing the 15 most-cited of 120 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 Frederick J. Martone on?: Frederick J. Martone was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

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9 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).