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 2001 / Active

John C. Gemmill

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

John C. Gemmill is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, serving since 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2001 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona
University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Gemmill authored 139 published opinions for the court (2002–2016), plus 5 concurrences. Most cited: Marriage of Kohler v. Kohler (113 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. 58 of these were attributed to Gemmill 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
2005	Marriage of Kohler v. Kohler	118 P.3d 621	113
2002	Trustmark Insurance v. Bank One, Arizona, NA	48 P.3d 485	103
2015	Vincent v. Nelson†	238 Ariz. 150	79
2010	Ezell v. Quon· Concurrence†	233 P.3d 645	69
2015	State v. Felix†	237 Ariz. 280	68
2002	Liristis v. American Family Mutual Insurance	61 P.3d 22	59
2010	Loiselle v. COSAS MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC	228 P.3d 943	53
2003	State v. Johnson	72 P.3d 343	48
2005	Urias v. PCS Health Systems, Inc.	118 P.3d 29	47
2005	Double AA Builders, Ltd. v. Grand State Construction L.L.C.	114 P.3d 835	42
2009	NEW SUN BUSINESS PARK, LLC v. Yuma County	209 P.3d 179	41
2004	Maycock v. Asilomar Development, Inc.	88 P.3d 565	38
2007	Regal Homes, Inc. v. CNA Insurance	171 P.3d 610	36
2014	Felipe v. Theme Tech Corp.†	235 Ariz. 520	35
2010	Diaz v. PHOENIX LUBRICATION SERVICE, INC.	230 P.3d 718	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 144 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 is John C. Gemmill on?: John C. Gemmill is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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25 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).