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 2008 / Active

Margaret H. Downie

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Margaret H. Downie is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arkansas
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Downie authored 65 published opinions for the court (2008–2017), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Tilley v. Delci (73 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. 34 of these were attributed to Downie 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
2009	Tilley v. Delci	204 P.3d 1082	73
2010	SOLIMENO v. Yonan	227 P.3d 481	48
2011	Cook v. Losnegard	265 P.3d 384	40
2012	Assyia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	273 P.3d 668	37
2012	Sun Valley Ranch 308 Ltd. Partnership v. Robson†	231 Ariz. 287	33
2014	Reyes v. Frank's Service & Trucking, LLC†	235 Ariz. 605	26
2009	Cicoria v. Cole	215 P.3d 402	22
2009	American Family Mutual Insurance v. Grant	217 P.3d 1212	20
2009	In re MH 2008-001188†	221 Ariz. 177	20
2011	Haag v. Steinle	255 P.3d 1016	19
2012	BASELINE FINANCIAL SERVICES v. Madison	278 P.3d 321	17
2015	Stein v. Stein†	238 Ariz. 548	15
2012	Helvetica Servicing, Inc. v. Pasquan	277 P.3d 198	15
2016	Russo v. Barger†	239 Ariz. 100	14
2015	Gila River Indian Community v. Department of Child Safety†	238 Ariz. 531	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 66 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 Margaret H. Downie on?: Margaret H. Downie is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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18 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).