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 2013 / Active

Kent E. Cattani

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Kent E. Cattani is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona (23 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cattani authored 37 published opinions for the court (2013–2026), plus 2 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: KB Home Tucson, Inc. v. Charter Oak Fire Insurance (73 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. 40 of these were attributed to Cattani 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
2014	KB Home Tucson, Inc. v. Charter Oak Fire Insurance†	236 Ariz. 326	73
2017	Coulter v. Grant Thornton, LLP†	241 Ariz. 440	30
2014	Natale v. Natale· Concurrence†	234 Ariz. 507	21
2014	Jose M. v. Eleanor J.†	234 Ariz. 13	18
2017	Wassef v. Arizona State Board of Dental Examiners ex rel. Hugunin†	242 Ariz. 90	14
2014	Johnson v. O'Connor· Concurrence†	235 Ariz. 85	12
2016	State v. Decker†	239 Ariz. 29	11
2014	State v. Lopez†	234 Ariz. 465	11
2015	City of Scottsdale v. State†	237 Ariz. 467	10
2016	Santorii v. MartinezRusso, LLC†	240 Ariz. 454	9
2015	State v. Foncette†	238 Ariz. 42	8
2015	Arizona Bank & Trust v. James R. Barrons Trust†	237 Ariz. 401	8
2017	Wagner v. State†	242 Ariz. 95	7
2014	Focus point/kantor v. johnson/oak Acres†	235 Ariz. 170	7
2017	Acri v. State†	242 Ariz. 235	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 43 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 Kent E. Cattani on?: Kent E. Cattani is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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13 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).