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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 1912 / Served to 1945

Henry D. Ross

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Henry D. Ross was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1912. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1861 · age 165
Tenure: 1912–1945 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1912	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Iowa

Judicial Record

In our data, Ross authored 1,180 published opinions for the court (1912–1945), plus 27 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Stewart v. Phoenix National Bank (76 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. 379 of these were attributed to Ross 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
1937	Stewart v. Phoenix National Bank· Concurrence	64 P.2d 101	76
1932	Zagar v. Industrial Commission	14 P.2d 472	63
1914	State v. Tucson Gas, Electric Light & Power Co.†	15 Ariz. 294	60
1940	Pratt v. Daly· Dissent	104 P.2d 147	58
1927	Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp. v. Industrial Commission	257 P. 641	58
1921	Arizona Binghampton Copper Co. v. Dickson†	22 Ariz. 163	55
1931	Clayton v. State	297 P. 1037	52
1931	Lutfy v. Lockhart	295 P. 975	52
1940	Burgunder v. State of Arizona	103 P.2d 256	50
1921	McFadden v. McFadden†	22 Ariz. 246	49
1942	State of Arizona v. Guerrero	120 P.2d 798	46
1938	Luhrs v. City of Phoenix	83 P.2d 283	45
1929	Singh v. State	280 P. 672	45
1925	Deatsch v. Fairfield	233 P. 887	43
1937	Lee Moor Contracting Co. v. Blanton	65 P.2d 35	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,228 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 Henry D. Ross on?: Henry D. Ross was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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32 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).