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 1998 / Served to 2002

Rebecca White Berch

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Rebecca White Berch was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1955 · age 71
Tenure: 1998–2002 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Berch authored 34 published opinions for the court (1998–2002), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Donald (216 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. 7 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
2000	State v. Donald· Concurrence†	10 P.3d 1193	216
1999	Martin v. Reinstein	987 P.2d 779	153
1999	Garcia v. General Motors Corp.	990 P.2d 1069	62
2000	Childress Buick Co. v. O'CONNELL· Dissent†	11 P.3d 413	45
2000	Michael J., Jr. v. Michael J., Sr.	7 P.3d 960	42
1999	State v. Mahaney	975 P.2d 156	41
2002	State v. Blackman	38 P.3d 1192	39
2000	State v. Valle	996 P.2d 125	39
2001	State v. Benak	18 P.3d 127	34
2001	Albers v. Edelson Technology Partners L.P.	31 P.3d 821	31
1999	Kessen v. Stewart	990 P.2d 689	30
2000	State v. Cotton	5 P.3d 918	28
2000	T.W.M. Custom Framing v. Industrial Commission†	198 Ariz. 41	25
2000	Walter v. Wilkinson	10 P.3d 1218	24
1999	Pavlik v. Chinle Unified School District No. 24	985 P.2d 633	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 37 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 Rebecca White Berch on?: Rebecca White Berch was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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3 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).