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 1976

Herbert F. Krucker

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Herbert F. Krucker was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1965–1976 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Krucker authored 603 published opinions for the court (1965–1976), plus 11 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Dietel v. Day (65 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. 225 of these were attributed to Krucker 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
1972	Dietel v. Day	492 P.2d 455	65
1968	State v. Scofield· Dissent†	438 P.2d 776	44
1975	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. O'Brien	535 P.2d 46	40
1972	State v. Taras	504 P.2d 548	40
1968	Dykeman v. Ashton	446 P.2d 26	40
1976	Barnes v. Lopez	544 P.2d 694	38
1967	Tucson Gas & Electric Company v. Schantz	428 P.2d 686	34
1975	State v. Vitale	530 P.2d 394	32
1966	State v. Martin	410 P.2d 132	32
1973	University Realty & Development Co. v. Omid-Gaf, Inc.	508 P.2d 747	31
1974	Rockmore v. State	519 P.2d 877	30
1973	State Ex Rel. Arvayo v. Guerrero	517 P.2d 526	30
1970	Braun v. Moreno	466 P.2d 60	29
1969	Costanzo v. Stewart	453 P.2d 526	29
1971	State v. Melcher	487 P.2d 3	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 617 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 Herbert F. Krucker on?: Herbert F. Krucker was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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11 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).