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 1961 / Served to 1975

Lorna E. Lockwood

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Lorna E. Lockwood was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1977
Tenure: 1961–1975 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Lockwood authored 434 published opinions for the court (1961–1975), plus 12 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Stone v. Arizona Highway Commission (255 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. 107 of these were attributed to Lockwood 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
1963	Stone v. Arizona Highway Commission	381 P.2d 107	255
1968	OS Stapley Company v. Miller	447 P.2d 248	118
1968	Schwartz v. Schwartz	447 P.2d 254	83
1972	Micucci v. Industrial Commission	494 P.2d 1324	82
1964	State v. Villavicencio	388 P.2d 245	80
1964	State v. Owen	394 P.2d 206	76
1971	State v. Tinghitella	491 P.2d 834	69
1961	State Bar of Arizona v. Arizona Land Title & Trust Co.	366 P.2d 1	69
1971	Ruth v. Industrial Commission	490 P.2d 828	65
1969	Jennings v. Lee	461 P.2d 161	61
1964	State v. Sorrell	388 P.2d 429	60
1974	State v. Benge	520 P.2d 843	56
1967	Kammert Bros. Enterprises, Inc. v. Tanque Verde Plaza Co.	428 P.2d 678	56
1967	State v. Hughes	426 P.2d 386	55
1964	D. M. A. F. B. Federal Credit Union v. Employers Mutual Liability Insurance†	96 Ariz. 399	55

Showing the 15 most-cited of 456 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 Lorna E. Lockwood on?: Lorna E. Lockwood was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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14 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).