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 1982 / Served to 1991

Thomas Brooks

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Thomas Brooks was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1931 · age 95
Tenure: 1982–1991 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Arizona
University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Brooks authored 131 published opinions for the court (1966–1992), plus 8 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Marriage of Elliott v. Elliott (102 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. 54 of these were attributed to Brooks 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
1990	Marriage of Elliott v. Elliott	796 P.2d 930	102
1986	Trus Joist Corp. v. Safeco Insurance Co. of America	735 P.2d 125	70
1989	Duquette v. Superior Court· Concurrence†	778 P.2d 634	56
1984	Schroeder v. Hudgins	690 P.2d 114	54
1991	State v. Takacs	819 P.2d 978	52
1986	Sahf v. Lake Havasu City Ass'n for the Retarded & Handicapped	721 P.2d 1177	47
1982	Midas Muffler Shop v. Ellison	650 P.2d 496	45
1983	State v. Davis†	137 Ariz. 551	39
1986	State Ex Rel. Corbin v. Challenge, Inc.	725 P.2d 727	37
1985	City of Phoenix v. SUPER. COURT, MARICOPA CTY.	696 P.2d 724	37
1987	Pankratz v. Willis· Concurrence†	744 P.2d 1182	34
1987	DeStories v. City of Phoenix	744 P.2d 705	31
1989	State v. Thomason	783 P.2d 809	30
1983	In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. JS-4374	667 P.2d 1345	30
1984	Wendling v. Southwest Savings & Loan Ass'n	694 P.2d 1213	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 145 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 Thomas Brooks on?: Thomas Brooks was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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9 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).