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 1987 / Served to 2003

William E. Druke

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

William E. Druke was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–2003 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Druke authored 97 published opinions for the court (1992–2003), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Audra v. Arizona Department of Economic Security (184 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. 32 of these were attributed to Druke 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
1998	Audra v. Arizona Department of Economic Security†	194 Ariz. 376	184
1995	Young Through Young v. Dfw Corp.	908 P.2d 1	106
2001	Files v. Bernal	22 P.3d 57	62
1997	State v. Nihiser· Concurrence†	953 P.2d 1252	61
2001	In Re Marriage of Robinson and Thiel	35 P.3d 89	55
1999	Monaco v. HealthPartners of Southern Arizona	995 P.2d 735	53
1999	State v. Smith	4 P.3d 388	38
2002	Sherman v. First American Title Insurance	38 P.3d 1229	28
1996	Alta Vista Plaza, Ltd. v. Insulation Specialists Co.	919 P.2d 176	28
1997	Kyles v. Contractors/Engineers Supply, Inc.	949 P.2d 63	24
1993	Nichols v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.	857 P.2d 406	23
1996	Navy Federal Credit Union v. Jones	930 P.2d 1007	22
2003	State v. Brown	64 P.3d 847	21
1996	State v. Baldenegro	932 P.2d 275	21
1993	State v. Boldrey	861 P.2d 663	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 99 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 E. Druke on?: William E. Druke was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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16 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).