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 1965 / Served to 1975

Henry S. Stevens

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Henry S. Stevens was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1907–1993
Tenure: 1965–1975 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Stevens authored 537 published opinions for the court (1965–1977), plus 13 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Tellez (40 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. 283 of these were attributed to Stevens 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
1967	State v. Tellez· Dissent†	431 P.2d 691	40
1968	Crouch v. Justice of the Peace Court of the Sixth Precinct	440 P.2d 1000	38
1968	Shaw v. State· Concurrence†	447 P.2d 262	37
1972	Phoenix Western Holding Corporation v. Gleeson	500 P.2d 320	35
1970	Lechuga, Inc. v. Montgomery	467 P.2d 256	35
1969	State v. Counterman	448 P.2d 96	33
1966	Bailey v. Bailey	412 P.2d 480	32
1970	State Ex Rel. Ariz. St. Bd. of P. & P. v. Superior Court of Maricopa County	467 P.2d 917	28
1966	Myers-Leiber Sign Co. v. Weirich	410 P.2d 491	27
1965	Bloch v. Bentfield	403 P.2d 559	27
1965	State v. Mileham	399 P.2d 688	27
1966	Massengill v. Superior Court	416 P.2d 1009	26
1965	State v. Cobb· Dissent†	406 P.2d 421	26
1971	Valley National Bank of Ariz. v. Avco Develop. Co.	480 P.2d 671	25
1966	State v. Singh· Concurrence†	419 P.2d 403	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 563 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 Henry S. Stevens on?: Henry S. Stevens was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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10 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).