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 2002 / Served to 2008

G Murray Snow

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

G Murray Snow was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2002–2008 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Snow authored 55 published opinions for the court (2002–2008), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Marina P. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security (94 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. 15 of these were attributed to Snow 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
2007	Marina P. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security†	214 Ariz. 326	94
2007	State v. Connor	161 P.3d 596	73
2004	State v. Miranda-Cabrera	99 P.3d 35	51
2004	Long v. City of Glendale	93 P.3d 519	48
2006	Evans Withycombe, Inc. v. Western Innovations, Inc.	159 P.3d 547	46
2007	Lennar Corp. v. Auto-Owners Insurance	151 P.3d 538	44
2004	Case Corp. v. Gehrke	91 P.3d 362	33
2003	Downs v. Scheffler	80 P.3d 775	31
2003	State v. Bronson	63 P.3d 1058	30
2007	Yes on Prop 200 v. Napolitano	160 P.3d 1216	28
2003	Daniel Y. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	77 P.3d 55	25
2007	In Re Tiffany O.	174 P.3d 282	16
2006	Brunet v. Murphy	135 P.3d 714	16
2008	Phoenix New Times, L.L.C. v. Arpaio	177 P.3d 275	15
2005	Grand Canyon Trust v. Arizona Corp. Commission	107 P.3d 356	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 57 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 G Murray Snow on?: G Murray Snow was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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5 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).