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 1982 / Served to 2002

Stanley G. Feldman

Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona

Stanley G. Feldman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1933 · age 93
Tenure: 1982–2002 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Supreme Court of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Feldman authored 441 published opinions for the court (1982–2003), plus 42 dissents and 98 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Shattuck (1,187 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. 205 of these were attributed to Feldman 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
1984	State v. Shattuck	684 P.2d 154	1,187
1990	Orme School v. Reeves	802 P.2d 1000	801
1993	State v. Bible	858 P.2d 1152	658
1985	Wagenseller v. Scottsdale Memorial Hospital	710 P.2d 1025	506
1986	Rawlings v. Apodaca	726 P.2d 565	495
1982	Sparks v. Republic National Life Insurance· Concurrence†	647 P.2d 1127	424
1983	State v. Chapple	660 P.2d 1208	423
1992	State v. Atwood· Concurrence†	832 P.2d 593	361
1984	Darner Motor Sales, Inc. v. Universal Underwriters Insurance	682 P.2d 388	328
1983	Ontiveros v. Borak	667 P.2d 200	306
1994	Hayes v. Continental Insurance	872 P.2d 668	294
1984	Pool v. Superior Court	677 P.2d 261	270
1993	Taylor v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	854 P.2d 1134	266
1987	State v. Robinson	735 P.2d 801	253
1985	Markowitz v. Arizona Parks Board	706 P.2d 364	241

Showing the 15 most-cited of 581 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 Stanley G. Feldman on?: Stanley G. Feldman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Sources

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20 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).