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 1997

James D. Hathaway

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

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

Tenure: 1965–1997 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Hathaway authored 1,113 published opinions for the court (1965–1996), plus 54 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: Maricopa County v. Federal Insurance (193 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. 451 of these were attributed to Hathaway 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
1988	Maricopa County v. Federal Insurance	757 P.2d 112	193
1978	Shell Oil Co. v. Gutierrez	581 P.2d 271	68
1983	Dunlap v. Jimmy GMC of Tucson, Inc.	666 P.2d 83	65
1975	Clark v. Allstate Insurance Company	529 P.2d 1195	62
1979	Parks v. MacRo-dynamics, Inc.	591 P.2d 1005	60
1978	Peery v. Hansen	585 P.2d 574	56
1977	Allen v. Fisher	574 P.2d 1314	51
1974	Riley v. Stoves	526 P.2d 747	47
1985	Drahos v. Rens	717 P.2d 927	45
1992	General Electric Capital Corp. v. Osterkamp	836 P.2d 404	43
1977	Globe Indemnity Co. v. Blomfield	562 P.2d 1372	43
1975	Anonymous v. Anonymous	540 P.2d 741	43
1989	U.S. Parking Systems v. City of Phoenix	772 P.2d 33	41
1970	Reese v. Cradit	469 P.2d 467	40
1978	Love v. Farmers Insurance Group	588 P.2d 364	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,193 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 D. Hathaway on?: James D. Hathaway was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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32 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).