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 1960 / Served to 1964

Renz L. Jennings

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Renz L. Jennings was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1899–1983
Tenure: 1960–1964 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jennings authored 93 published opinions for the court (1956–1964), plus 8 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Layton v. Rocha (117 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. 19 of these were attributed to Jennings 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
1962	Layton v. Rocha· Dissent†	368 P.2d 444	117
1963	Jenkins v. Mayflower Insurance Exchange	380 P.2d 145	107
1964	State v. Anderson	392 P.2d 784	56
1962	State v. Dowthard	373 P.2d 357	52
1963	Alires v. Southern Pacific Company· Concurrence†	378 P.2d 913	51
1963	Trojanovich v. Marshall	388 P.2d 149	47
1962	State v. McGee	370 P.2d 261	45
1963	Day v. Estate of Wiswall	381 P.2d 217	42
1961	State v. Daymus	367 P.2d 647	41
1963	State v. Woolery	378 P.2d 751	40
1962	State v. Hunt	370 P.2d 642	40
1961	Campbell v. Brinson	360 P.2d 211	40
1962	Pettis v. Industrial Commission	372 P.2d 72	39
1961	State v. Hilliard	359 P.2d 66	39
1962	Coyner Crop Dusters v. Marsh· Dissent†	372 P.2d 708	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 105 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 Renz L. Jennings on?: Renz L. Jennings was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

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3 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).