How do judges of the Kentucky Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Kentucky Court of Appeals / Joined 2013 / Active

Allison Jones

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Allison Jones is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Kentucky

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 96 published opinions for the court (1974–2026), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Ford v. Ford (57 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. 66 of these were attributed to Jones 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
2019	Ford v. Ford†	578 S.W.3d 356	57
1975	M & T Chemicals, Inc. v. Westrick Ex Rel. Westrick	525 S.W.2d 740	42
2016	Smith v. Norton Hospitals, Inc.· Dissent†	488 S.W.3d 23	33
2015	Holt v. Holt†	458 S.W.3d 806	31
2019	Castle v. Castle· Dissent†	567 S.W.3d 908	26
2016	Romero-Perez v. Commonwealth†	492 S.W.3d 902	26
1974	Wilhoit v. Wilhoit	506 S.W.2d 511	24
2017	Scott v. Forcht Bank, NA†	521 S.W.3d 591	23
2018	Larison v. Home of the Innocents†	551 S.W.3d 36	22
2016	PBI Bank, Inc. v. Signature Point Condominiums LLC†	535 S.W.3d 700	21
1974	Kellems v. Buchignani	518 S.W.2d 788	21
2019	C.J. v. M.S.†	572 S.W.3d 492	18
1974	Barriger v. Barriger	514 S.W.2d 114	18
1974	Deskins v. Commonwealth	512 S.W.2d 520	17
2014	B.L. v. J.S.†	434 S.W.3d 61	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 102 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 Kentucky Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Allison Jones on?: Allison Jones is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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