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

Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 1971 / Served to 1992

James D. Cameron

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

James D. Cameron was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1925–2003
Tenure: 1971–1992 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-Berkeley

Judicial Record

In our data, Cameron authored 744 published opinions for the court (1971–1993), plus 61 dissents and 50 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Gretzler (374 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. 236 of these were attributed to Cameron 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
1983	State v. Gretzler	659 P.2d 1	374
1984	Darner Motor Sales, Inc. v. Universal Underwriters Insurance· Concurrence†	682 P.2d 388	328
1978	State v. Watson	586 P.2d 1253	206
1987	Ford v. Revlon, Inc.	734 P.2d 580	199
1977	Eastin v. Broomfield	570 P.2d 744	186
1982	State Ex Rel. Collins v. SUPERIOR COURT, ETC.· Concurrence†	644 P.2d 1266	181
1986	Linthicum v. Nationwide Life Insurance	723 P.2d 675	167
1986	State v. Correll	715 P.2d 721	157
1989	State v. Fulminante	778 P.2d 602	146
1992	State v. Brewer· Concurrence†	826 P.2d 783	142
1990	State v. Dawson· Dissent†	792 P.2d 741	142
1991	State v. Greenway	823 P.2d 22	139
1986	State v. Schrock	719 P.2d 1049	136
1982	Chevron Chemical Co. v. Superior Court	641 P.2d 1275	136
1981	State v. Christensen· Concurrence†	628 P.2d 580	126

Showing the 15 most-cited of 855 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 James D. Cameron on?: James D. Cameron was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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21 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).