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 1998 / Served to 2009

Ruth V. McGregor

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Ruth V. McGregor was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 1998–2009 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, McGregor authored 118 published opinions for the court (1992–2009), plus 8 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Henderson (1,009 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. 27 of these were attributed to McGregor 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
2005	State v. Henderson	115 P.3d 601	1,009
2005	Kent K. v. Bobby M.	110 P.3d 1013	751
2000	Michael J. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security†	995 P.2d 682	680
2003	State v. Ring	65 P.3d 915	325
2006	State v. Bennett	146 P.3d 63	216
2008	Cullen v. Auto-Owners Insurance	189 P.3d 344	204
2007	State v. Morris	160 P.3d 203	202
2000	State v. Jones	4 P.3d 345	175
1999	Marriage of Little v. Little	975 P.2d 108	149
2009	State v. Dann	207 P.3d 604	146
2007	State v. Hansen	160 P.3d 166	146
1998	State v. Rodriguez	961 P.2d 1006	123
2001	State v. Nordstrom	25 P.3d 717	119
2007	Deer Valley Unified School District No. 97 v. Houser†	214 Ariz. 293	117
2005	State v. Martinez	115 P.3d 618	117

Showing the 15 most-cited of 131 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 Ruth V. McGregor on?: Ruth V. McGregor was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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11 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).