Stanley George Feldman (born March 9, 1933) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as a member of the Arizona Supreme Court for twenty years from 1982 to 2002. He served as chief justice from 1992 to 1997. Feldman was born in

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and grew up in Tucson. He took his law degree at the

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. Feldman was President of the

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in 1974. Feldman was the second Arizona Supreme Court Justice to be appointed under Arizona's then-new merit-selection system. Over two decades, Feldman wrote over 400 majority opinions, "displaying an exceptional ability to forge consensus among his colleagues." Feldman was widely considered a liberal.

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