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 2012 / Active

Michael O. Miller

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Michael O. Miller is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

Michigan State University
University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller authored 53 published opinions for the court (2013–2017), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: State of Arizona v. Robert Francisco Borquez (53 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. 54 of these were attributed to Miller 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
2013	State of Arizona v. Robert Francisco Borquez†	232 Ariz. 484	53
2014	In Re the Marriage of Thorn†	235 Ariz. 216	48
2016	Laura Cruz v. Robert Garcia†	240 Ariz. 233	37
2014	Sandretto v. Payson Healthcare Management, Inc.†	234 Ariz. 351	34
2013	State of Arizona v. Craig Michael Stefanovich†	232 Ariz. 154	30
2015	Valer C. Austin v. Josiah T. Austin†	237 Ariz. 201	27
2013	Rogers v. Board of Regents of the University of Arizona†	233 Ariz. 262	25
2016	Beau Hodai v. the City of Tucson and Tucson Police Department†	239 Ariz. 34	22
2016	Tucson Estates Property Owners Association, Inc. v. McGovern, Sines†	239 Ariz. 52	21
2014	Monroe v. Basis School, Inc.†	234 Ariz. 155	21
2017	Varco, Inc. v. UNS Electric, Inc.†	242 Ariz. 166	17
2016	State of Arizona v. Joseph Javier Romero†	240 Ariz. 503	16
2014	State of Arizona v. Carlos Ubaldo Gonzalez†	235 Ariz. 212	15
2015	State of Arizona v. Ronald Vassell†	238 Ariz. 281	14
2016	State of Arizona v. Rosa Elene Becerra†	239 Ariz. 90	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 54 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 O. Miller on?: Michael O. Miller is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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14 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).