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 1971

James Cameron

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

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

Tenure: 1965–1971 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Cameron authored 312 published opinions for the court (1965–1971), plus 12 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Hoffman v. Hoffman (71 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. 129 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
1966	Hoffman v. Hoffman	417 P.2d 717	71
1966	Harleysville Mutual Insurance Company v. Lea	410 P.2d 495	62
1967	Serna v. Statewide Contractors, Inc.	429 P.2d 504	44
1967	Anguis v. Superior Court	429 P.2d 702	42
1970	State v. Reynolds	466 P.2d 405	40
1965	Di Orio v. City of Scottsdale	408 P.2d 849	39
1965	City of Phoenix v. Schroeder	405 P.2d 301	38
1966	Myers-Leiber Sign Co. v. Weirich· Dissent†	410 P.2d 491	27
1965	State v. Cobb	406 P.2d 421	26
1965	Thiel v. Industrial Commission	404 P.2d 711	26
1965	Jones v. Industrial Commission	401 P.2d 172	26
1965	Mead v. American Smelting & Refining Company	399 P.2d 694	25
1965	Reilly v. Industrial Commission	398 P.2d 920	25
1966	State v. Singh	419 P.2d 403	24
1969	Guirey, Srnka & Arnold, Architects v. City of Phoenix	449 P.2d 306	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 326 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 James Cameron on?: James Cameron was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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6 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).