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 1985 / Served to 1996

Lloyd Fernandez

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Lloyd Fernandez was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–1996 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fernandez authored 273 published opinions for the court (1985–1996), plus 6 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Baker v. Baker (184 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. 119 of these were attributed to Fernandez 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
1995	Baker v. Baker	900 P.2d 764	184
1991	Ban v. Quigley	812 P.2d 1014	48
1987	Lincoln v. Lincoln	746 P.2d 13	46
1995	In re United States Currency in the Amount of $315,900.00· Dissent†	183 Ariz. 208	45
1992	State v. Woody	845 P.2d 487	43
1989	State v. Bruggeman	779 P.2d 823	43
1989	Fiesta Mall Venture v. Mecham Recall Committee	767 P.2d 719	41
1990	Elliott v. Videan	791 P.2d 639	38
1991	Evergreen West, Inc. v. Boyd· Concurrence†	810 P.2d 612	35
1992	McCallister Co. v. Kastella	825 P.2d 980	28
1991	State v. Morales	824 P.2d 756	27
1991	Timmons v. City of Tucson	830 P.2d 871	26
1993	State v. Arnoldi	860 P.2d 503	25
1988	Johnson v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	754 P.2d 330	24
1991	Matter of Estate of Johnson	811 P.2d 360	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 284 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 Lloyd Fernandez on?: Lloyd Fernandez was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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11 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).