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 1981 / Served to 1999

Sarah D. Grant

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Sarah D. Grant was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1981–1999 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of California-Los Angeles

Judicial Record

In our data, Grant authored 276 published opinions for the court (1982–1999), plus 14 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: McAlister v. Citibank (90 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. 82 of these were attributed to Grant 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
1992	McAlister v. Citibank	829 P.2d 1253	90
1993	Ulibarri v. Gerstenberger	871 P.2d 698	89
1992	State Ex Rel. Romley v. Superior Court	836 P.2d 445	78
1984	Thomas v. Thomas	690 P.2d 105	70
1984	J.W. Hancock Enterprises, Inc. v. Arizona State Registrar of Contractors	690 P.2d 119	65
1995	Hyatt Regency Phoenix Hotel Co. v. Winston & Strawn	907 P.2d 506	63
1998	Johnson v. Elson	967 P.2d 1022	60
1994	Alaface v. National Investment Co.	892 P.2d 1375	59
1989	Arizona Bd. of Regents for and on Behalf of University of Arizona v. State Ex Rel. State, Public Safety Retirement Fund Manager Administrator	771 P.2d 880	58
1988	In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. JS-6520	756 P.2d 335	55
1994	In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. JD-5312	873 P.2d 710	53
1986	USLife Title Co. of Arizona v. Gutkin	732 P.2d 579	53
1986	Ina Insurance Co. of North America v. Valley Forge Insurance	722 P.2d 975	53
1996	Kiley v. Jennings, Strouss & Salmon	927 P.2d 796	49
1993	Lewis v. Oliver	873 P.2d 668	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 301 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 Sarah D. Grant on?: Sarah D. Grant was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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17 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).