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The Arizona Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court for the state of Arizona. It is divided into two divisions, with a total of twenty-eight judges on the court: nineteen in Division 1, based in Phoenix , and nine in Division 2, based in Tucson .
Peter J. Eckerstrom (born October 8, 1960) is a Judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division Two, having been appointed to the post in 2003. [1]Born in St. James, Minnesota, Eckerstrom received his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Yale University in 1982 and his Juris Doctor with Distinction from Stanford Law School in 1986. [1]
Howe was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals by Republican Governor Jan Brewer in April 2012 to succeed Daniel Barker. [9] He was retained by the voters in 2014 [10] and 2020. [11] In 2015, Howe was selected to serve on an Arizona Supreme Court case involving judicial pensions filed by judge Jon W. Thompson after the justices recused ...
First Native American (female) elected to the Arizona Superior Court: Gloria J. Kindig in 1996 [16] First Asian American female (Arizona Superior Court): Rosa Mroz in 2004 [17] [18] First Latino American female (Arizona Court of Appeals): Patricia A. Orozco (1989) in 2004 [19] [20] First openly lesbian female: Tracey Nadzieja in 2018 [21]
Appellate judges. Five judges are up for retention from the Arizona Court of Appeals. Cynthia Bailey. She received 22 votes from commissioners who said she met the standards and zero against.
Diane M. Johnsen was a Judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One, having been appointed to the post in August 2006 by Governor Janet Napolitano. [2] [3] She retired in 2020. [4] Johnsen received her Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from the University of Arizona in 1975.
Courts of Arizona include: State courts of Arizona. Arizona Supreme Court [1] Arizona Court of Appeals (2 divisions) [2] Superior Court of Arizona (15 counties) [2] Justices of the Peace (county courts) [3] and Arizona Municipal Courts, city trial courts and courts of limited jurisdiction; Federal courts located in Arizona. United States ...
First Hispanic American male (Arizona Appeals Court): Joe W. Contreras in 1979 [17] First African American male (Arizona Appeals Court): Cecil B. Patterson Jr. (1971) in 1985 [ 4 ] [ 18 ] [ 17 ] First Latino American male ( Supreme Court of Arizona): John Lopez IV (1998): [ 19 ] First Latino American male to serve on (2016)