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 1992 / Active

Philip G. Espinosa

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Philip G. Espinosa is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, serving since 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1992 · 34 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona
University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Espinosa authored 222 published opinions for the court (1993–2019), plus 19 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Arizona Department of Economic Security v. Oscar O. (310 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. 110 of these were attributed to Espinosa 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
2004	Arizona Department of Economic Security v. Oscar O.†	209 Ariz. 332	310
2000	Englert v. Carondelet Health Network· Dissent†	13 P.3d 763	118
2004	ChartOne, Inc. v. Bernini	83 P.3d 1103	114
2009	Grosvenor Holdings, L.C. v. Figueroa	218 P.3d 1045	109
2013	State of Arizona v. Angelino Paolo Buccheri-Bianca†	233 Ariz. 324	79
2004	Mitchell v. Gamble· Dissent†	86 P.3d 944	75
1999	State v. Riley	992 P.2d 1135	70
2015	Louis C. v. Department of Child Safety†	237 Ariz. 484	67
2000	In re United States Currency In Amount of $26,980.00· Dissent†	199 Ariz. 291	62
2007	Cohen v. Frey	157 P.3d 482	58
2005	Romero v. Southwest Ambulance	119 P.3d 467	57
2000	Estate of Nelson v. Rice	12 P.3d 238	56
2003	State v. Box	73 P.3d 623	52
2010	State v. Petty	238 P.3d 637	47
2008	Bobby G. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	200 P.3d 1003	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 252 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 Philip G. Espinosa on?: Philip G. Espinosa is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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34 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).