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 2001 / Served to 2013

Philip L. Hall

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Philip L. Hall was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2013 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Hall authored 99 published opinions for the court (2001–2013), plus 9 dissents and 7 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. 38 of these were attributed to Hall 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	170 P.3d 266	123
2004	John C. Lincoln Hospital v. Maricopa County	96 P.3d 530	106
2007	MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN RANCH COMMUNITY ASS'N v. Simons	165 P.3d 667	75
2010	Ezell v. Quon	233 P.3d 645	69
2007	Tierra Ranchos Homeowners Ass'n v. Kitchukov	165 P.3d 173	68
2003	Campbell v. SZL Properties, Ltd.	62 P.3d 966	62
2009	Reid v. Reid· Dissent†	213 P.3d 353	60
2006	Grubb & Ellis Management Services, Inc. v. 407417 B.C., L.L.C.	138 P.3d 1210	58
2002	Marriage of McNutt v. McNutt	49 P.3d 300	57
2001	State Ex Rel. Romley v. Fields	35 P.3d 82	54
2013	Marquez v. Ortega†	231 Ariz. 437	53
2006	Lemke v. Rayes	141 P.3d 407	44
2004	Pinal Vista Properties, L.L.C. v. Turnbull	91 P.3d 1031	44
2003	State v. Sanders· Dissent†	68 P.3d 434	44
2008	Pettit v. Pettit	189 P.3d 1102	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 115 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 Philip L. Hall on?: Philip L. Hall was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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12 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).