How do judges of the Supreme Court of Arizona reach the bench?

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

Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 1987 / Served to 1998

James Moeller

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

James Moeller was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1933 · age 93
Tenure: 1987–1998 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Education

Nebraska Wesleyan University
George Washington University

Judicial Record

In our data, Moeller authored 177 published opinions for the court (1987–1998), plus 11 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Bolton (326 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. 51 of these were attributed to Moeller 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
1995	State v. Bolton	896 P.2d 830	326
1990	In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. JS-500274	804 P.2d 730	276
1995	State v. Murray	906 P.2d 542	217
1992	State v. Salazar	844 P.2d 566	207
1991	State v. Gendron	812 P.2d 626	206
1990	State v. Mathers	796 P.2d 866	201
1991	State v. Lavers· Concurrence†	814 P.2d 333	189
1996	State v. Soto-Fong	928 P.2d 610	182
1989	State v. Walton· Concurrence†	769 P.2d 1017	167
1995	Gust, Rosenfeld & Henderson v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America	898 P.2d 964	154
1991	Wyatt v. Wehmueller· Dissent†	806 P.2d 870	148
1990	State v. Conner	786 P.2d 948	148
1991	State v. Greenway· Concurrence†	823 P.2d 22	139
1994	State v. King· Concurrence†	883 P.2d 1024	136
1987	State v. Arredondo	746 P.2d 484	115

Showing the 15 most-cited of 209 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 Moeller on?: James Moeller was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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10 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).