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 2003 / Active

Patricia K. Norris

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Patricia K. Norris is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Norris authored 90 published opinions for the court (2004–2017), plus 4 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Teagle (123 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. 55 of these were attributed to Norris 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
2007	State v. Teagle· Dissent†	170 P.3d 266	123
2012	Cardoso v. Soldo	277 P.3d 811	108
2008	National Bank of Arizona v. Thruston	180 P.3d 977	96
2005	In Re Estate of Lamparella	109 P.3d 959	64
2008	MT BUILDERS, LLC v. Fisher Roofing Inc.	197 P.3d 758	46
2013	Calisi v. Unified Financial Services, LLC†	232 Ariz. 103	37
2012	Nardelli v. Metropolitan Group Property & Casualty Insurance	277 P.3d 789	36
2005	State v. Parks	116 P.3d 631	28
2004	Schoneberger v. Oelze	96 P.3d 1078	27
2011	Smith v. Pinnamaneni	254 P.3d 409	25
2009	Mendoza v. McDonald's Corp.	213 P.3d 288	25
2008	Thompson v. Thompson	176 P.3d 722	25
2009	Minjares v. State· Concurrence†	219 P.3d 264	22
2005	James H. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security· Concurrence†	106 P.3d 327	19
2016	American Civil Liberties Union v. Arizona Department of Child Safety†	240 Ariz. 142	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 102 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 Patricia K. Norris on?: Patricia K. Norris is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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23 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).