How do judges of the Supreme Court of Tennessee reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Tennessee / Joined 1942 / Served to 1960

A B. Neil

Justice, Supreme Court of Tennessee

A B. Neil was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, who joined the court in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1873–1966
Tenure: 1942–1960 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1942	Supreme Court of Tennessee	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Neil authored 331 published opinions for the court (1915–1959), plus 15 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Farmer v. State (99 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. 133 of these were attributed to Neil 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
1956	Farmer v. State	296 S.W.2d 879	99
1946	Southern v. Beeler, Atty.-Gen.	195 S.W.2d 857	71
1958	Hogan v. McDaniel	319 S.W.2d 221	64
1951	Tapp v. Tapp	236 S.W.2d 977	57
1915	Hutton v. Watters	132 Tenn. 527	57
1947	Henning v. State	201 S.W.2d 669	53
1957	Graham v. State	304 S.W.2d 622	52
1946	Quinley v. Cocke	192 S.W.2d 992	51
1948	Deaton v. Vise†	186 Tenn. 364	49
1946	Forsha v. State	194 S.W.2d 463	49
1955	Howard v. Haven	281 S.W.2d 480	44
1959	Emmco Insurance Co. v. Beacon Mutual Indemnity Co.	322 S.W.2d 226	42
1952	Norris v. Richards	246 S.W.2d 81	41
1946	Jared v. Fitzgerald· Concurrence	195 S.W.2d 1	40
1943	Church of Christ v. McDonald	171 S.W.2d 817	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 356 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 Supreme Court of Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was A B. Neil on?: A B. Neil was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Sources

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17 years on the Supreme Court of Tennessee. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).