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 1989

Levi Ray Haire

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

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

Born: 1926 · age 100
Tenure: 1969–1989 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Haire authored 573 published opinions for the court (1969–1993), plus 14 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Ramirez (141 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. 191 of these were attributed to Haire 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
1980	State v. Ramirez	616 P.2d 924	141
1978	Gaston v. Hunter	588 P.2d 326	110
1982	Nienstedt v. Wetzel	651 P.2d 876	108
1971	Arizona Title Insurance & Trust Co. v. O'Malley Lumber Co.	484 P.2d 639	91
1984	DeGroot v. Arizona Racing Commission	686 P.2d 1301	84
1974	Castillo v. Industrial Commission	520 P.2d 1142	78
1983	State v. LeMaster	669 P.2d 592	64
1971	Mayer v. Good Samaritan Hospital· Dissent†	482 P.2d 497	56
1989	United States Fidelity & Guaranty Corp. v. Advance Roofing & Supply Co.	788 P.2d 1227	54
1979	Bilagody v. Thorneycroft	607 P.2d 965	52
1984	Holding v. Industrial Com'n of Arizona	679 P.2d 571	48
1976	State v. Fuentes	549 P.2d 224	47
1970	Navajo Freight Lines, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance	471 P.2d 309	47
1974	Smitty's Super-Valu, Inc. v. Pasqualetti	525 P.2d 309	46
1982	State v. Moreno	655 P.2d 23	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 600 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 Levi Ray Haire on?: Levi Ray Haire was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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20 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).