How do judges of the Supreme Court of Arizona reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 1947 / Served to 1960

Levi S. Udall

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Levi S. Udall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1960
Tenure: 1947–1960 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Udall authored 388 published opinions for the court (1947–1959), plus 26 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Hart v. Bayless Investment & Trading Company (94 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. 91 of these were attributed to Udall 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
1959	Hart v. Bayless Investment & Trading Company†	346 P.2d 1101	94
1948	Porter v. Porter· Concurrence	195 P.2d 132	90
1947	State v. Singleton	182 P.2d 920	87
1954	State v. Thomas	275 P.2d 408	81
1947	Duhame v. State Tax Commission	179 P.2d 252	77
1949	State v. Thompson	206 P.2d 1037	74
1954	State v. Webb	274 P.2d 338	73
1953	Bristor v. Cheatham· Dissent†	255 P.2d 173	73
1955	Murillo v. Hernandez	281 P.2d 786	71
1959	Schwartz v. Schwerin	336 P.2d 144	68
1949	Nichols v. City of Phoenix	202 P.2d 201	68
1949	Waugh v. Lennard	211 P.2d 806	66
1948	American Federation of Labor v. American Sash & Door Co.	189 P.2d 912	65
1948	Jacob v. Miner	191 P.2d 734	63
1947	Ruth v. Rhodes	185 P.2d 304	62

Showing the 15 most-cited of 423 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 Supreme Court of Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Levi S. Udall on?: Levi S. Udall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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13 years on the Supreme Court of Arizona. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).