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 1992 / Served to 2011

Sheldon H. Weisberg

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Sheldon H. Weisberg was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–2011 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Weisberg authored 185 published opinions for the court (1993–2011), plus 6 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Marriage of Fuentes v. Fuentes (124 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. 46 of these were attributed to Weisberg 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
2004	Marriage of Fuentes v. Fuentes	97 P.3d 876	124
2007	Marriage of Boncoskey v. Boncoskey	167 P.3d 705	81
1993	Evenstad v. State	875 P.2d 811	76
2011	Berry v. 352 E. Virginia, L.L.C.	261 P.3d 784	72
1994	Phoenix Baptist Hospital & Medical Center, Inc. v. Aiken	877 P.2d 1345	71
1993	City of Phoenix v. Leroy's Liquors, Inc.	868 P.2d 958	62
1998	State v. Harrison	985 P.2d 513	53
2006	Lohmeier v. Hammer	148 P.3d 101	47
2008	State v. Flores	188 P.3d 706	45
1994	Chase Bank of Arizona v. Acosta· Concurrence†	880 P.2d 1109	39
1998	Luchanski v. Officer J.L. Congrove	971 P.2d 636	37
1995	Arvizu v. Fernandez	902 P.2d 830	37
2002	State Ex Rel. Industrial Commission v. Wright	43 P.3d 203	36
1994	Canty v. Canty	874 P.2d 1000	36
2007	Rand v. Porsche Financial Services†	216 Ariz. 424	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 196 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 Sheldon H. Weisberg on?: Sheldon H. Weisberg was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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18 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).