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 1988 / Served to 2001

Rudolph J. Gerber

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Rudolph J. Gerber was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1938 · age 88
Tenure: 1988–2001 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame

Judicial Record

In our data, Gerber authored 170 published opinions for the court (1985–2001), plus 20 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Tinajero (251 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. 97 of these were attributed to Gerber 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
1997	State v. Tinajero	935 P.2d 928	251
2000	Baker v. Stewart Title & Trust of Phoenix, Inc.	5 P.3d 249	62
1999	Johnson v. McDonald	3 P.3d 1075	56
1992	Lavit v. Superior Court	839 P.2d 1141	49
1993	State v. Sanchez	846 P.2d 857	47
1994	City of Cottonwood v. James L. Fann Contracting, Inc.	877 P.2d 284	45
1997	Linder v. Brown & Herrick	943 P.2d 758	39
1992	Rhue v. Dawson· Concurrence†	841 P.2d 215	39
1993	James, Cooke & Hobson, Inc. v. Lake Havasu Plumbing & Fire Protection· Concurrence†	868 P.2d 329	38
1997	In Re William G.· Dissent†	963 P.2d 287	37
2000	State v. Marshall	4 P.3d 1039	35
1990	Wells Fargo Credit Corp. v. Smith	803 P.2d 900	34
1999	Wigglesworth v. Mauldin	990 P.2d 26	33
1992	Angus Medical Co. v. Digital Equipment Corp.· Dissent†	840 P.2d 1024	33
1986	State v. Leonard	725 P.2d 493	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 212 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 Rudolph J. Gerber on?: Rudolph J. Gerber was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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12 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).