How do judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee / Joined 1999 / Active

Alan E. Glenn

Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee

Alan E. Glenn is a Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee	–	–

Education

Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University

Judicial Record

In our data, Glenn authored 1,558 published opinions for the court (1991–2021). Most cited: State v. Dean (173 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. 4 of these were attributed to Glenn 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
2001	State v. Dean	76 S.W.3d 352	173
2003	State v. Mickens	123 S.W.3d 355	170
2001	State v. Bottoms	87 S.W.3d 95	89
2001	State v. Phillips	76 S.W.3d 1	54
2002	State v. Caldwell	80 S.W.3d 31	42
2000	State v. Cureton	38 S.W.3d 64	41
2003	State v. Webb	130 S.W.3d 799	40
2001	State v. Levitt	73 S.W.3d 159	37
2010	State v. Trusty	326 S.W.3d 582	24
2003	State v. Looper	118 S.W.3d 386	22
2000	State v. Merriweather	34 S.W.3d 881	21
2006	State v. Biggs	211 S.W.3d 744	20
2002	State v. Leiderman	86 S.W.3d 584	20
2007	State v. Vick	242 S.W.3d 792	18
2007	State v. Siliski	238 S.W.3d 338	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,558 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 Criminal Appeals of Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Alan E. Glenn on?: Alan E. Glenn is a Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee.

Sources

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