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 1976 / Served to 1980

James L. Richmond

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

James L. Richmond was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1976–1980 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Richmond authored 233 published opinions for the court (1976–2006), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Dixon (49 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. 107 of these were attributed to Richmond 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
2006	State v. Dixon	622 P.2d 501	49
1979	State v. O'BRIEN	601 P.2d 341	36
1977	Central Alarm of Tucson v. Ganem	567 P.2d 1203	32
1979	Murry v. Western American Mortgage Co.	604 P.2d 651	30
1980	State v. Peeler	614 P.2d 335	28
1977	Circle K Corp. v. Rosenthal	574 P.2d 856	28
1979	Gann v. Morris	596 P.2d 43	27
1977	Hixon v. State Compensation Fund	565 P.2d 898	27
1979	Conner v. El Paso Natural Gas Co.	599 P.2d 247	25
1978	Mission Insurance v. Nethers	581 P.2d 250	25
1980	Universal Investment Co. v. Sahara Motor Inn, Inc.	619 P.2d 485	24
1977	State v. Donovan	568 P.2d 1107	23
1977	Amphitheater Public Schools v. Eastman	574 P.2d 47	21
1979	Sun Lodge, Inc. v. Ramada Development Co.	606 P.2d 30	20
1978	State v. Floyd	586 P.2d 203	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 238 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 L. Richmond on?: James L. Richmond was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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4 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).