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 1995 / Active

Jon W. Thompson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Jon W. Thompson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, serving since 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1995 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

Northern Arizona University
University of Colorado Boulder

Judicial Record

In our data, Thompson authored 187 published opinions for the court (1995–2019), plus 15 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Pena (119 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. 102 of these were attributed to Thompson 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	State v. Pena· Dissent†	104 P.3d 873	119
2003	Owen v. Blackhawk	79 P.3d 667	98
2000	Keggi v. Northbrook Property & Casualty Insurance	13 P.3d 785	94
2007	Brookover v. Roberts Enterprises Inc.†	215 Ariz. 52	71
2007	Marriage of Leathers v. Leathers	166 P.3d 929	63
2006	Chaurasia v. General Motors Corp.	126 P.3d 165	60
1997	Hart v. Seven Resorts Inc.	947 P.2d 846	60
2000	Haisch v. Allstate Insurance	5 P.3d 940	47
1997	Marriage of Muchesko v. Muchesko	955 P.2d 21	47
2004	State v. Martinez	100 P.3d 30	40
2010	Dreamland Villa Community Club, Inc. v. Raimey	226 P.3d 411	39
1998	Enyart v. Transamerica Insurance	985 P.2d 556	39
1998	LaBombard v. Samaritan Health System	991 P.2d 246	37
2012	Caruthers v. Underhill†	230 Ariz. 513	34
2000	State v. Hurley	4 P.3d 455	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 220 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 Jon W. Thompson on?: Jon W. Thompson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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31 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).