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 1995 / Served to 2006

James B. Sult

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

James B. Sult was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Tenure: 1995–2006 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Sult authored 60 published opinions for the court (1995–2005), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Valencia (165 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. 14 of these were attributed to Sult 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
1996	State v. Valencia	924 P.2d 497	165
2004	Magee v. Magee	81 P.3d 1048	93
1996	State v. Noriega	928 P.2d 706	62
2000	State v. Watson	6 P.3d 752	53
2000	Haisch v. Allstate Insurance· Dissent†	5 P.3d 940	47
2000	Childress Buick Co. v. O'CONNELL	11 P.3d 413	45
2003	State v. Sanders	68 P.3d 434	44
1999	Goodman v. Samaritan Health System†	195 Ariz. 502	44
1996	State v. Curry	931 P.2d 1133	41
1997	In Re William G.	963 P.2d 287	37
1996	State v. Baca	926 P.2d 528	37
1996	State v. Wilson	914 P.2d 1346	37
2000	Norwest Bank (Minnesota), N.A. v. Symington	3 P.3d 1101	32
1996	Creach v. Angulo	925 P.2d 689	32
1996	Collins v. Miller & Miller, Ltd.	943 P.2d 747	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 64 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 B. Sult on?: James B. Sult was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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11 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).