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 1960 / Served to 1972

Jesse A. Udall

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Jesse A. Udall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1893–1980
Tenure: 1960–1972 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Udall authored 421 published opinions for the court (1961–1972), plus 19 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Willits (207 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. 108 of these were attributed to Udall 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
1964	State v. Willits· Dissent†	393 P.2d 274	207
1962	State v. Valdez	371 P.2d 894	193
1965	State v. Schantz· Concurrence†	403 P.2d 521	126
1965	Yeazell v. Copins· Dissent†	402 P.2d 541	123
1966	Rothweiler v. Superior Court of Pima County	410 P.2d 479	119
1965	City of Phoenix v. Donofrio	407 P.2d 91	84
1966	Clemens v. Clark	420 P.2d 284	74
1963	Gilmore v. Cohen	386 P.2d 81	68
1968	General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp. v. Little	443 P.2d 690	67
1967	State v. Martin· Concurrence†	426 P.2d 639	67
1970	Royall v. Industrial Commission	476 P.2d 156	66
1964	State v. Schroeder	389 P.2d 255	62
1966	Carrel v. Lux	420 P.2d 564	61
1966	Arizona Podiatry Ass'n v. Director of Insurance· Dissent†	422 P.2d 108	59
1967	State v. Pederson	424 P.2d 810	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 449 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 Jesse A. Udall on?: Jesse A. Udall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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11 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).