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 1975 / Served to 1979

Mary Murphy Schroeder

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Mary Murphy Schroeder was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Tenure: 1975–1979 · 4 yrs
Education: Swarthmore College 1962

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

Swarthmore College

B.A.

1962

Judicial Record

In our data, Schroeder authored 38 published opinions for the court (1975–1979), plus 8 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Crook v. Anderson (35 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. 53 of these were attributed to Schroeder 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
1977	Crook v. Anderson†	565 P.2d 908	35
1979	Church of Scientology v. City of Phoenix Police Department†	594 P.2d 1034	21
1977	Best Fertilizers of Arizona, Inc. v. Burns· Dissent†	571 P.2d 675	19
1976	State v. Zamora· Concurrence†	559 P.2d 195	16
1979	State Ex Rel. Baumert v. Municipal Court of Phoenix· Concurrence†	606 P.2d 33	14
1977	Watts v. State†	566 P.2d 693	13
1977	State v. Canaday· Dissent†	574 P.2d 60	12
1978	Scott v. Industrial Commission†	593 P.2d 919	10
1977	State v. LaBarre· Dissent†	565 P.2d 1305	9
1977	State v. White· Concurrence†	574 P.2d 840	8
1977	State v. Bender· Concurrence†	569 P.2d 316	7
1977	State v. Sims· Concurrence†	560 P.2d 810	7
1979	Marce v. Bailey†	636 P.2d 1225	6
1979	State v. Eason· Dissent†	604 P.2d 654	6
1977	Watson v. Welton· Concurrence†	563 P.2d 331	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 53 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 Mary Murphy Schroeder on?: Mary Murphy Schroeder was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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4 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).