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 1969 / Served to 1992

William E. Eubank

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

William E. Eubank was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1925–2004
Tenure: 1969–1992 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Eubank authored 372 published opinions for the court (1969–1992), plus 32 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Castillo v. Industrial Commission (78 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. 211 of these were attributed to Eubank 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
1974	Castillo v. Industrial Commission· Concurrence†	520 P.2d 1142	78
1991	Walls v. Arizona Department of Public Safety	826 P.2d 1217	75
1979	Fairway Builders, Inc. v. Malouf Towers Rental Co.	603 P.2d 513	64
1977	Larsen v. Motor Supply Co.	573 P.2d 907	47
1973	Trollope v. Koerner	515 P.2d 340	47
1969	Visco v. Universal Refuse Removal Company	462 P.2d 90	42
1991	Libra Group, Inc. v. State	805 P.2d 409	41
1982	State v. Fristoe	658 P.2d 825	41
1984	Consolidated Roofing & Supply Co. v. Grimm	682 P.2d 457	40
1971	Stewart v. Fahey· Concurrence†	481 P.2d 519	40
1980	Ellis v. Valley National Bank†	125 Ariz. 373	37
1981	Hansen v. Stoll	636 P.2d 1236	35
1977	Crook v. Anderson· Dissent†	565 P.2d 908	35
1991	State v. Fancher	818 P.2d 251	33
1988	State v. Cuen	761 P.2d 160	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 420 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. Eubank on?: William E. Eubank was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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23 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).