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 1985 / Served to 1997

Joseph M. Livermore

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Joseph M. Livermore was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–1997 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

Dartmouth College
Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Livermore authored 232 published opinions for the court (1985–1997), plus 10 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: In re United States Currency in the Amount of $315,900.00 (45 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. 125 of these were attributed to Livermore 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
1995	In re United States Currency in the Amount of $315,900.00· Concurrence†	183 Ariz. 208	45
1988	State v. Tassler	765 P.2d 1007	30
1991	State v. Webster· Dissent†	824 P.2d 768	28
1990	State v. Warner	812 P.2d 1079	28
1985	Villegas v. Transamerica Financial Services, Inc.	708 P.2d 781	25
1991	Roland v. Bernstein	828 P.2d 1237	21
1987	State v. Ramirez Enriquez	737 P.2d 407	21
1985	State v. Best	703 P.2d 548	19
1988	State v. Fleischman	754 P.2d 340	18
1987	Lindsey v. University of Arizona· Concurrence†	754 P.2d 1152	18
1991	State v. Cifuentes	830 P.2d 469	17
1989	Black v. Perkins	787 P.2d 1088	17
1985	State v. Hicks	707 P.2d 331	17
1986	Borja v. Phoenix General Hospital, Inc.	727 P.2d 355	16
1991	Giley v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company	812 P.2d 1124	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 252 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 Joseph M. Livermore on?: Joseph M. Livermore was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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12 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).