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 1969 / Served to 1992

Lawrence Howard

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Lawrence Howard was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1931–2014
Tenure: 1969–1992 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Howard authored 1,312 published opinions for the court (1969–1992), plus 25 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Burns v. Jaquays Mining Corp. (91 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. 487 of these were attributed to Howard 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
1988	Burns v. Jaquays Mining Corp.	752 P.2d 28	91
1972	Purcell v. Zimbelman	500 P.2d 335	75
1970	Caruth v. Mariani	463 P.2d 83	69
1981	In Re the Appeal in Pima County Juvenile Action No. S-903.	635 P.2d 187	66
1983	Dunlap v. Jimmy GMC of Tucson, Inc.· Dissent†	666 P.2d 83	65
1982	Quigley v. City Court of the City of Tucson	643 P.2d 738	63
1976	Fickett v. Superior Court of Pima County	558 P.2d 988	63
1973	Vanguard Insurance Company v. Cantrell	503 P.2d 962	61
1979	Parks v. MacRo-dynamics, Inc.· Concurrence†	591 P.2d 1005	60
1972	In Re Dos Cabezas Power District	498 P.2d 488	60
1978	Peery v. Hansen· Concurrence†	585 P.2d 574	56
1972	State v. Fogel	492 P.2d 742	52
1973	Duran v. City of Tucson	509 P.2d 1059	51
1981	Garcia v. City of South Tucson	640 P.2d 1117	49
1990	Millar v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.	804 P.2d 822	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,351 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 Lawrence Howard on?: Lawrence Howard was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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23 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).