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 2002 / Former Justice

Rebecca W. Berch

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Rebecca W. Berch was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Berch authored 109 published opinions for the court (2002–2015), plus 2 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Moody (424 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. 42 of these were attributed to Berch 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	State v. Moody	94 P.3d 1119	424
2013	State of Arizona v. Christopher Mathew Payne†	233 Ariz. 484	304
2006	State v. Roque	141 P.3d 368	207
2003	State v. Dann	74 P.3d 231	167
2006	State v. Wall	126 P.3d 148	133
2006	State v. Berger· Concurrence†	134 P.3d 378	122
2013	State of Arizona v. Steven John Parker†	231 Ariz. 391	110
2007	State v. Cox	174 P.3d 265	102
2005	State v. Stroud	103 P.3d 912	99
2008	State v. Cruz	181 P.3d 196	98
2003	State v. Davis	79 P.3d 64	93
2012	State v. Ferrero	274 P.3d 509	91
2005	City of Tucson v. Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc.· Concurrence†	209 Ariz. 544	88
2009	State v. Bearup	211 P.3d 684	78
2007	State v. Pandeli	161 P.3d 557	76

Showing the 15 most-cited of 116 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 Rebecca W. Berch on?: Rebecca W. Berch was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

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24 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).