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 / Served to 2012

Peter Eckerstrom

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Peter Eckerstrom was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1960 · age 66
Tenure: 2003–2012 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Yale University
Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Eckerstrom authored 108 published opinions for the court (2003–2012), plus 5 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Manuel M. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security (148 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. 33 of these were attributed to Eckerstrom 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
2008	Manuel M. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	181 P.3d 1126	148
2007	Adrian E. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security†	215 Ariz. 96	87
2009	Denise R. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	210 P.3d 1263	85
2007	Harris v. Cochise Health Systems	160 P.3d 223	79
2008	In Re the Marriage of Williams	200 P.3d 1043	74
2004	Crackel v. Allstate Insurance	92 P.3d 882	69
2003	Washburn v. Pima County	81 P.3d 1030	51
2012	Mahar v. Acuna, II†	230 Ariz. 530	50
2003	State v. George	79 P.3d 1050	49
2003	State v. Livingston	75 P.3d 1103	45
2012	STATE OF ARIZONA v. STEVE FRANK McPHERSON†	228 Ariz. 557	44
2011	Delmastro & Eells v. Taco Bell Corp.	263 P.3d 683	44
2007	State v. McCurdy· Concurrence†	169 P.3d 931	39
2004	State v. Resendis-Felix· Concurrence†	100 P.3d 457	38
2005	State v. Johnson	111 P.3d 1038	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 120 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 Peter Eckerstrom on?: Peter Eckerstrom was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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9 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).