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

Kenton D. Jones

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Kenton D. Jones is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: Since 2013 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Northern Arizona University

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 32 published opinions for the court (2014–2019), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Harm (179 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. 35 of these were attributed to Jones 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
2015	State v. Harm†	236 Ariz. 402	179
2016	Shella H. v. Department of Child Safety†	239 Ariz. 47	84
2015	Great Western Bank v. LJC Development, LLC†	238 Ariz. 470	31
2014	Frimmel v. Hon. sanders/state†	236 Ariz. 232	21
2017	Stafford v. Burns†	241 Ariz. 474	18
2016	Ramsey v. Arizona Registrar of Contractors†	241 Ariz. 102	14
2015	Burch v. Hon. myers/hon. bassett/lund†	237 Ariz. 369	14
2016	Marianne N. v. Department of Child Safety†	240 Ariz. 470	13
2015	City of Tempe v. State†	237 Ariz. 360	13
2016	Summers v. Gloor†	239 Ariz. 222	12
2015	Hirsch v. Arizona Corp. Commission†	237 Ariz. 456	12
2014	Guerra v. State†	234 Ariz. 482	12
2015	Berndt v. Arizona Department of Corrections†	238 Ariz. 524	11
2017	State ex rel. Brnovich v. Maricopa County Community College District Board†	242 Ariz. 325	7
2015	Shorey v. Arizona Corp. Commission†	238 Ariz. 253	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 35 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 Kenton D. Jones on?: Kenton D. Jones is 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).