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 1965 / Served to 1969

John F. Molloy

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

John F. Molloy was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1965–1969 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona
University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Molloy authored 307 published opinions for the court (1965–1969), plus 8 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Welker v. Kennecott Copper Company (90 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. 75 of these were attributed to Molloy 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
1965	Welker v. Kennecott Copper Company	403 P.2d 330	90
1968	Brenner v. Aetna Insurance Company	445 P.2d 474	85
1968	Geyer v. Reserve Insurance Company	447 P.2d 556	52
1965	Shetter v. Rochelle	409 P.2d 74	52
1965	Salinas v. Kahn	407 P.2d 120	47
1968	State v. Scofield	438 P.2d 776	44
1967	Connolly v. Great Basin Insurance Company	431 P.2d 921	38
1966	Bade v. Drachman	417 P.2d 689	37
1969	Reserve Insurance Company v. Staats	453 P.2d 239	36
1967	In Re Estate of Henry	430 P.2d 937	36
1968	State v. Cutshaw	437 P.2d 962	35
1967	State v. Watson	436 P.2d 175	35
1967	Industrial Commission v. Superior Court in and for County of Pima	423 P.2d 375	35
1965	Peterman-Donnelly Engineers & Contractors Corp. v. First National Bank	408 P.2d 841	35
1969	Rodgers v. Ray	457 P.2d 281	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 324 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 F. Molloy on?: John F. Molloy 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).