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 1991 / Served to 2004

William F. Garbarino

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

William F. Garbarino was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Tenure: 1991–2004 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Education

Northern Arizona University
University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Garbarino authored 89 published opinions for the court (1992–2004), plus 15 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Marriage of Gutierrez v. Gutierrez (311 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. 47 of these were attributed to Garbarino 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	Marriage of Gutierrez v. Gutierrez	972 P.2d 676	311
1994	Cummings v. Cummings· Dissent†	897 P.2d 685	53
2001	City of Tempe v. Outdoor Systems, Inc.	32 P.3d 31	47
2001	State v. Lucas	18 P.3d 160	46
1996	In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action Nos. JV-512600 and JV-512797	930 P.2d 496	44
2001	S Development Co. v. Pima Capital Management Co.	31 P.3d 123	39
2001	State v. Gross	31 P.3d 815	38
2001	Saucedo Ex Rel. Sinaloa v. Salvation Army	24 P.3d 1274	36
1998	State v. Vasko· Dissent†	971 P.2d 189	36
2000	State v. Canion	16 P.3d 788	28
2001	Siporin v. Carrington	23 P.3d 92	27
1992	Berenter v. Gallinger	839 P.2d 1120	27
2004	Master Financial, Inc. v. Woodburn	90 P.3d 1236	26
1992	Town of Paradise Valley v. Laughlin	851 P.2d 109	23
2002	Southern Pacific Transportation Co. v. State†	202 Ariz. 326	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 105 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 F. Garbarino on?: William F. Garbarino was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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12 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).