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 1967 / Served to 1974

Allison B. Humphreys

Justice, Supreme Court of Tennessee

Allison B. Humphreys was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1993
Tenure: 1967–1974 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Supreme Court of Tennessee	–	–

Education

Cumberland University
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Humphreys authored 109 published opinions for the court (1967–1984), plus 8 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Ussery v. Avery (284 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. 64 of these were attributed to Humphreys 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
1968	Ussery v. Avery	432 S.W.2d 656	284
1968	Sneed v. State	423 S.W.2d 857	161
1973	Wiggins v. State	498 S.W.2d 92	132
1973	Hall v. State	490 S.W.2d 495	114
1967	State Ex Rel. Edmondson v. Henderson	421 S.W.2d 635	102
1969	Hunter v. State· Dissent†	440 S.W.2d 1	98
1973	Travelers Insurance Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.	491 S.W.2d 363	92
1973	Campbell v. State†	491 S.W.2d 359	59
1973	Aetna Casualty and Surety Company v. Miller	491 S.W.2d 85	58
1973	Gunther v. White	489 S.W.2d 529	57
1968	State Ex Rel. Barnes v. Henderson	423 S.W.2d 497	54
1971	Glover v. Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Co.	468 S.W.2d 727	53
1972	Winters v. Maxey· Dissent†	481 S.W.2d 755	48
1969	Jackson v. General Motors Corp., Oldsmobile Div.	441 S.W.2d 482	48
1969	Tackett v. State	443 S.W.2d 450	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 126 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 Allison B. Humphreys on?: Allison B. Humphreys was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

7 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).