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 1991

Melvyn T. Shelley

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

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

Lived: 1921–2003
Tenure: 1985–1991 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Colgate University
University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Shelley authored 65 published opinions for the court (1965–1992), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: M & M Auto Storage Pool, Inc. v. Chemical Waste Management, Inc. (38 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. 19 of these were attributed to Shelley 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
1990	M & M Auto Storage Pool, Inc. v. Chemical Waste Management, Inc.	791 P.2d 665	38
1987	Goglia v. Bodnar	749 P.2d 921	34
1992	State v. Bowles	841 P.2d 209	28
1990	State v. Lammie	793 P.2d 134	28
1990	State v. Wideman	798 P.2d 1373	25
1988	Croft v. Arizona State Board of Dental Examiners	755 P.2d 1191	21
1992	State v. Luque	829 P.2d 1244	20
1986	Sanders v. Novick	729 P.2d 960	19
1986	Hanson v. Commercial Union Insurance	723 P.2d 101	19
1986	State v. Fatty	724 P.2d 1256	19
1991	State v. Benson· Concurrence†	172 Ariz. 15	18
1987	State v. Fowler	752 P.2d 497	18
1992	State v. Perez	836 P.2d 1000	17
1988	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Dimmer	773 P.2d 1012	17
1991	Berthot v. Security Pacific Bank	823 P.2d 1326	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 69 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 Melvyn T. Shelley on?: Melvyn T. Shelley was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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5 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).