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 1996 / Served to 2002

Michael D. Ryan

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Michael D. Ryan was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1996–2002 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ryan authored 37 published opinions for the court (1996–2002), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: State v. Clark (703 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. 9 of these were attributed to Ryan 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
1999	State v. Clark	2 P.3d 89	703
2001	Minh T. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security†	202 Ariz. 76	59
2001	State Ex Rel. Pennartz v. Olcavage	30 P.3d 649	56
1999	Graville v. Dodge	985 P.2d 604	54
2000	State v. Carlisle	8 P.3d 391	43
2000	Jackson v. Tangreen	18 P.3d 100	35
2001	HCZ Construction Inc. v. First Franklin Financial Corp.†	199 Ariz. 361	34
1997	Schwarz v. City of Glendale	950 P.2d 167	32
1998	State v. Ramirez· Dissent†	945 P.2d 376	24
1997	Madden-Tyler v. Maricopa County	943 P.2d 822	23
1998	Nutek Information Systems, Inc. v. Arizona Corp. Commission	977 P.2d 826	22
1997	Murphy v. Board of Medical Examiners	949 P.2d 530	22
1997	Pompa v. SUPERIOR COURT IN & FOR MARICOPA	931 P.2d 431	20
1999	State v. Bonnewell	2 P.3d 682	18
2001	State v. Evenson	33 P.3d 780	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 39 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 Michael D. Ryan on?: Michael D. Ryan 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).