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 1997 / Served to 2012

William Brammer Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

William Brammer Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1997–2012 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona
University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Brammer authored 114 published opinions for the court (1997–2012), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Poblete (820 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. 37 of these were attributed to Brammer 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
2011	State v. Poblete	260 P.3d 1102	820
2007	Polanco v. INDUSTRIAL COM'N OF ARIZONA	154 P.3d 391	130
2007	Airfreight Express Ltd. v. Evergreen Air Center, Inc.	158 P.3d 232	79
2007	McCloud v. STATE, DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY	170 P.3d 691	70
2000	Eller Media Co. v. City of Tucson	7 P.3d 136	70
2008	Jones v. Cochise County	187 P.3d 97	65
2008	State v. Haight-Gyuro	186 P.3d 33	61
1997	State v. Nihiser	953 P.2d 1252	61
2006	Grand v. Nacchio	147 P.3d 763	59
2008	Haroutunian v. Valueoptions, Inc.· Dissent†	189 P.3d 1114	54
2009	Green v. Lisa Frank, Inc.	211 P.3d 16	50
2008	Warner v. Southwest Desert Images, LLC	180 P.3d 986	49
2011	Sholes v. Fernando	268 P.3d 1112	45
2007	State v. Paris-Sheldon	154 P.3d 1046	39
2002	Montano v. Browning	48 P.3d 494	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 120 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 William Brammer Jr. on?: William Brammer Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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15 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).