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 2004 / Active

Patricia A. Orozco

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Patricia A. Orozco is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, serving since 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona
University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Orozco authored 91 published opinions for the court (2005–2018), plus 6 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Hurd v. Hurd (277 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. 49 of these were attributed to Orozco 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
2009	Hurd v. Hurd	219 P.3d 258	277
2013	Nold v. Nold†	232 Ariz. 270	145
2014	Savord v. Morton†	235 Ariz. 256	107
2007	MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN RANCH COMMUNITY ASS'N v. Simons· Dissent†	165 P.3d 667	75
2008	State v. Karr	212 P.3d 11	61
2008	Kimu P. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	178 P.3d 511	48
2005	State v. Febles	115 P.3d 629	42
2007	State v. Olquin	165 P.3d 228	36
2008	Mining Investment Group, LLC v. Roberts	177 P.3d 1207	29
2011	Williamson v. PVORBIT, INC.	263 P.3d 77	27
2013	Karl v. US Bank National Ass'n†	233 Ariz. 22	24
2010	Ramsey v. YAVAPAI FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER	235 P.3d 285	24
2008	Rivers v. Solley	177 P.3d 270	24
2010	State v. Martin	235 P.3d 1045	22
2012	Searchtoppers.com, L.L.C. v. TrustCash LLC· Dissent†	231 Ariz. 236	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 98 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 A. Orozco on?: Patricia A. Orozco is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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22 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).