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

Court of Appeals of Arizona / Joined 1989 / Served to 1995

John L. Claborne

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

John L. Claborne was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–1998
Tenure: 1989–1995 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona
University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Claborne authored 61 published opinions for the court (1989–1994), plus 4 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: AROK Construction Co. v. Indian Construction Services (61 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. 18 of these were attributed to Claborne 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
1993	AROK Construction Co. v. Indian Construction Services· Concurrence†	848 P.2d 870	61
1991	City of Tempe v. Fleming	815 P.2d 1	54
1989	State v. Steiger	781 P.2d 616	38
1992	Troutman v. Valley Nat. Bank of Arizona	826 P.2d 810	33
1989	State v. Ritch	774 P.2d 234	30
1993	State v. Delgado	848 P.2d 337	27
1992	Bellezzo v. State· Concurrence†	851 P.2d 847	26
1990	Sprang v. Petersen Lumber, Inc.	798 P.2d 395	25
1994	Soos v. SUPERIOR CT. COUNTY OF MARICOPA	897 P.2d 1356	24
1992	Miller v. Westcor Ltd. Partnership	831 P.2d 386	24
1990	Sirek v. Fairfield Snowbowl, Inc.	800 P.2d 1291	23
1994	Williams v. Thude	885 P.2d 1096	21
1990	Turbin v. Superior Court	797 P.2d 734	21
1993	Burris v. City of Phoenix	875 P.2d 1340	20
1992	Lang v. Superior Court	826 P.2d 1228	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 69 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 John L. Claborne on?: John L. Claborne was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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6 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).