How do judges of the Supreme Court of Arizona reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 1945 / Served to 1947

Joseph H. Morgan

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Joseph H. Morgan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1884 · age 142
Tenure: 1945–1947 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Morgan authored 59 published opinions for the court (1945–1946), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Reed v. Real Detective Publishing Co. (107 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. 3 of these were attributed to Morgan 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
1945	Reed v. Real Detective Publishing Co.	162 P.2d 133	107
1945	Valley Nat. Bank of Phoenix v. Glover	159 P.2d 292	72
1945	Goodyear Aircraft Corp. v. Industrial Commission	158 P.2d 511	71
1945	Blaine v. Blaine	159 P.2d 786	64
1945	Crane Co. v. Arizona State Tax Commission	163 P.2d 656	56
1946	Davis v. Kleindienst	169 P.2d 78	45
1945	City of Tucson v. Tucson Sunshine Climate Club	164 P.2d 598	43
1945	Degraff v. Smith· Dissent	157 P.2d 342	42
1946	Casey v. Marshall	168 P.2d 240	38
1945	Keystone Copper Mining Co. v. Miller	164 P.2d 603	38
1945	General Petroleum Corp. of Cal. v. Smith	157 P.2d 356	38
1946	Podol v. Jacobs	173 P.2d 758	32
1945	Kennecott Copper Corp. v. Industrial Commission	158 P.2d 887	32
1945	Stewart v. Damron	160 P.2d 321	28
1945	Kerby v. State Ex Rel. Frohmiller	157 P.2d 698	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 62 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 Supreme Court of Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Joseph H. Morgan on?: Joseph H. Morgan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

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1 year on the Supreme Court of Arizona. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).