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 2012 / Active

Randall M. Howe

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Randall M. Howe is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona (23 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Howe authored 53 published opinions for the court (2012–2019), plus 2 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Felix (68 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. 59 of these were attributed to Howe 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
2015	State v. Felix· Concurrence†	237 Ariz. 280	68
2012	Boyle v. Boyle†	231 Ariz. 63	38
2014	Arizona Department of Economic Security v. Rocky J.†	234 Ariz. 437	37
2016	Keg Restaurants Arizona, Inc. v. Jones†	240 Ariz. 64	36
2017	Parsons v. Arizona Department of Health Services†	242 Ariz. 320	34
2015	Skydive Arizona, Inc. v. Hogue†	238 Ariz. 357	34
2015	City Center Executive Plaza, LLC v. Jantzen†	237 Ariz. 37	23
2014	Azore, LLC v. Bassett†	236 Ariz. 424	20
2013	CSA 13-101 Loop, LLC v. Loop 101, LLC†	233 Ariz. 355	19
2014	Simms v. Rayes†	234 Ariz. 47	16
2019	JH2K I LLC v. Ariz. Dep't of Health Servs.†	438 P.3d 676	15
2014	State Ex Rel. Montgomery v. Karp†	236 Ariz. 120	15
2013	Orca Communications Unlimited, LLC v. Noder†	233 Ariz. 411	14
2014	Johnson v. O'Connor†	235 Ariz. 85	12
2016	Hogue v. City of Phoenix†	240 Ariz. 277	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 59 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 Randall M. Howe on?: Randall M. Howe is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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14 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).