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 2002 / Active

Lawrence F. Winthrop

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Lawrence F. Winthrop is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

Texas A & M University-College Station

Judicial Record

In our data, Winthrop authored 87 published opinions for the court (2002–2017), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Mary Lou C. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security (475 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. 37 of these were attributed to Winthrop 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
2004	Mary Lou C. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security†	207 Ariz. 43	475
2003	Young v. Industrial Commission†	204 Ariz. 267	166
2016	Dominique M. v. Department of Child Safety†	240 Ariz. 96	155
2016	Jennifer S. v. Department of Child Safety†	240 Ariz. 282	145
2004	State v. Williams	99 P.3d 43	109
2007	Christy A. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	173 P.3d 463	105
2015	Desert Palm Surgical Group, P.L.C. v. Petta†	236 Ariz. 568	89
2011	Freeman v. Sorchych	245 P.3d 927	74
2009	Reid v. Reid	213 P.3d 353	60
2012	Cal X-Tra v. W.V.S v. Holdings, L.L.C.	276 P.3d 11	58
2011	Mangan v. Mangan	258 P.3d 164	51
2003	Kocher v. Department of Revenue†	206 Ariz. 480	51
2004	State v. Long	83 P.3d 618	50
2010	SOLIMENO v. Yonan· Concurrence†	227 P.3d 481	48
2014	Helland v. Helland†	236 Ariz. 197	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 90 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 Lawrence F. Winthrop on?: Lawrence F. Winthrop is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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24 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).