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 2007 / Active

Michael J. Brown

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Michael J. Brown is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 89 published opinions for the court (2007–2026), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Shawanee S. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security (172 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. 45 of these were attributed to Brown 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
2014	Shawanee S. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security†	234 Ariz. 174	172
2011	Christina G. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	256 P.3d 628	138
2017	Crystal E. v. Department of Child Safety†	241 Ariz. 576	117
2010	In Re Marriage of Flower	225 P.3d 588	68
2007	State v. Fernandez	169 P.3d 641	61
2014	State v. Ramos†	235 Ariz. 230	52
2011	Mario G. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	257 P.3d 1162	51
2015	Schickner v. Schickner†	237 Ariz. 194	50
2013	McMurtry v. Weatherford Hotel, Inc.†	231 Ariz. 244	50
2010	State v. Sweeney· Concurrence†	227 P.3d 868	50
2011	State v. Trujillo	257 P.3d 1194	45
2009	A Tumbling-T Ranches v. Flood Control District	217 P.3d 1220	45
2015	Milinovich v. Womack†	236 Ariz. 612	41
2011	Ryan v. San Francisco Peaks Trucking Co.	262 P.3d 863	38
2010	In Re Marriage of Inboden	225 P.3d 599	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 92 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 Michael J. Brown on?: Michael J. Brown is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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19 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).