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 1960

Robert O. Lesher

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Robert O. Lesher was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1921 · age 105
Tenure: 1960–1960

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Arizona
University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Lesher authored 15 published opinions for the court (1960). Most cited: State v. Crose (42 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. 3 of these were attributed to Lesher 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
1960	State v. Crose	357 P.2d 136	42
1960	Kemble v. Porter	357 P.2d 155	23
1960	Beaman v. Westward Ho Hotel Company	357 P.2d 327	22
1960	In Re Pitt's Estate	356 P.2d 408	22
1960	Mountain States Construction Company v. Riley	356 P.2d 648	14
1960	Burton v. City of Tucson	356 P.2d 413	11
1960	Miller v. Superior Court	356 P.2d 699	7
1960	Shun v. Hospital Benefit Association	357 P.2d 603	6
1960	Lindsey v. Duncan	356 P.2d 392	6
1960	Nicholas v. Fowler	357 P.2d 331	4
1960	California Cotton Oil Corporation v. Rabb	357 P.2d 126	4
1960	Pacific Motor Trucking Co. v. Industrial Commission	355 P.2d 966	4
1960	Lawson v. Lawson†	88 Ariz. 352	2
1960	Anderson v. Kalkbrenner†	88 Ariz. 312	1
1960	Burton v. Kautenburger†	88 Ariz. 319	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 15 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 Robert O. Lesher on?: Robert O. Lesher was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1960. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).