How do judges of the Supreme Court of Arizona reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Arizona / Joined 1943 / Served to 1955

R.C. Stanford

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

R.C. Stanford was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1879–1963
Tenure: 1943–1955 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Education

Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Stanford authored 243 published opinions for the court (1943–1963), plus 23 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Adams v. Bolin (97 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 Stanford 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
1952	Adams v. Bolin· Dissent†	247 P.2d 617	97
1948	Porter v. Porter· Dissent	195 P.2d 132	90
1948	American Federation of Labor v. American Sash & Door Co.· Dissent	189 P.2d 912	65
1945	Crane Co. v. Arizona State Tax Commission· Dissent	163 P.2d 656	56
1953	McClinton v. Rice	265 P.2d 425	55
1954	State v. Polan	278 P.2d 432	47
1954	State v. Westbrook†	79 Ariz. 116	47
1947	S.H. Kress Co. v. Superior Court of Maricopa County	182 P.2d 931	47
1945	Degraff v. Smith	157 P.2d 342	42
1951	Findlay v. Board of Sup'rs of County of Mohave	230 P.2d 526	41
1954	Pioneer Constructors v. Symes	267 P.2d 740	39
1946	Casey v. Marshall· Dissent	168 P.2d 240	38
1948	State v. Martinez	198 P.2d 115	35
1951	Taylor v. Roosevelt Irr. Dist.	232 P.2d 107	33
1954	Schnatzmeyer v. Industrial Commission· Concurrence†	270 P.2d 794	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 273 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 Supreme Court of Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was R.C. Stanford on?: R.C. Stanford was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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11 years on the Supreme Court of Arizona. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).