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 1989 / Served to 2008

Susan A. Ehrlich

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Susan A. Ehrlich was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

Wellesley College

Judicial Record

In our data, Ehrlich authored 219 published opinions for the court (1989–2008), plus 7 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Rosario (87 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. 79 of these were attributed to Ehrlich 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
1999	State v. Rosario	987 P.2d 226	87
2002	Bike Fashion Corp. v. Kramer	46 P.3d 431	73
1991	Davis v. Cessna Aircraft Corp.	812 P.2d 1119	72
1991	State v. Hernandez	823 P.2d 1309	69
1995	State v. Cid	892 P.2d 216	67
1995	Hrudka v. Hrudka	919 P.2d 179	61
1997	Sorensen v. Farmers Ins. Co. of Arizona	957 P.2d 1007	60
2003	State v. Maldonado	78 P.3d 1060	59
1998	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Arrington	963 P.2d 334	57
1991	In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. JS-8287	828 P.2d 1245	57
1998	State v. Guytan	968 P.2d 587	55
1997	Arizona Department of Public Safety v. Superior Court	949 P.2d 983	52
1999	Enterprise Leasing Co. of Phoenix v. Ehmke	3 P.3d 1064	51
2000	Kaibab Industries v. Industrial Commission	2 P.3d 691	50
2001	State v. Tschilar	27 P.3d 331	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 236 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 Susan A. Ehrlich on?: Susan A. Ehrlich 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).