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 1989 / Served to 1992

John F. Taylor

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

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

Born: 1930 · age 96
Tenure: 1989–1992 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Taylor authored 38 published opinions for the court (1990–1992), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Swichtenberg v. Brimer (55 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. 10 of these were attributed to Taylor 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
1991	Swichtenberg v. Brimer	828 P.2d 1218	55
1991	State v. Iniguez· Concurrence†	821 P.2d 194	51
1992	Lavit v. Superior Court· Dissent†	839 P.2d 1141	49
1990	State v. Barger	810 P.2d 191	42
1992	State v. Womack	847 P.2d 609	40
1992	A.R. Teeters & Associates, Inc. v. Eastman Kodak Co.	836 P.2d 1034	36
1990	State v. Anaya	799 P.2d 876	32
1991	Menendez v. Paddock Pool Construction Co.	836 P.2d 968	30
1991	Stewart v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance	817 P.2d 44	28
1992	Hampton v. Glendale Union High School District	837 P.2d 1166	26
1992	State v. Jordan	828 P.2d 786	12
1992	Borchers v. Arizona Board of Pardons & Paroles	851 P.2d 88	11
1992	McCreary v. Industrial Com'n of Arizona	835 P.2d 469	9
1991	Ferguson v. Cash, Sullivan & Cross Insurance Agency, Inc.	831 P.2d 380	9
1990	State v. Glasscock†	168 Ariz. 265	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 40 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. Taylor on?: John F. Taylor was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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2 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).