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 2008 / Active

Peter B. Swann

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Peter B. Swann is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Swann authored 121 published opinions for the court (2008–2018), plus 2 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Volk v. Brame (101 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. 81 of these were attributed to Swann 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
2014	Volk v. Brame†	235 Ariz. 462	101
2009	Engel v. Landman	212 P.3d 842	80
2009	Kline v. Kline	212 P.3d 902	76
2010	Comerica Bank v. MAHMOODI	229 P.3d 1031	69
2012	Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Allen†	231 Ariz. 209	59
2013	Christopher K. v. Markaa S.†	233 Ariz. 297	54
2014	Rogone v. Correia†	236 Ariz. 43	50
2010	State v. Sweeney	227 P.3d 868	50
2010	Valento v. Valento	240 P.3d 1239	48
2016	Sherman v. Sherman†	241 Ariz. 110	45
2014	Dueñas v. Life Care Centers of America, Inc.†	236 Ariz. 130	44
2013	Sitton v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co.†	233 Ariz. 215	36
2012	Nardelli v. Metropolitan Group Property & Casualty Insurance· Concurrence†	277 P.3d 789	36
2012	Rinegar v. Rinegar†	231 Ariz. 85	29
2011	State v. Gamez	258 P.3d 263	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 126 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 Peter B. Swann on?: Peter B. Swann is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

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18 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).