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 1995

Michael Anthony Lacagnina

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Michael Anthony Lacagnina was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–1995 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Lacagnina authored 171 published opinions for the court (1985–1994), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Glaze v. Marcus (83 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. 72 of these were attributed to Lacagnina 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
1986	Glaze v. Marcus	729 P.2d 342	83
1986	St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Asbury	720 P.2d 540	49
1986	Morn v. City of Phoenix	730 P.2d 873	28
1986	State v. Youngblood	734 P.2d 592	27
1988	State v. Pearce	751 P.2d 603	25
1992	General Electric Capital Corp. v. Osterkamp	836 P.2d 398	21
1989	West Pinal Family Health Center, Inc. v. McBryde	785 P.2d 66	20
1986	Arkules v. BD. OF ADJUST. OF PARADISE VALLEY	728 P.2d 657	20
1985	State v. Pennington	717 P.2d 471	20
1988	Continental Insurance v. McDaniel	772 P.2d 6	19
1991	Mungarro v. Riley	826 P.2d 1215	18
1985	State v. Sheko	704 P.2d 270	18
1989	Ball v. Prentice	781 P.2d 628	17
1989	C & J TRAVEL, INC. v. Shumway	775 P.2d 1097	16
1986	St. Mary's Hospital & Health Center v. State	721 P.2d 666	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 174 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 Anthony Lacagnina on?: Michael Anthony Lacagnina was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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10 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).