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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Tennessee / Joined 1963 / Served to 1965

Andrew O. Holmes

Justice, Supreme Court of Tennessee

Andrew O. Holmes was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1965
Tenure: 1963–1965 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	Supreme Court of Tennessee	–	–

Education

Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University

Judicial Record

In our data, Holmes authored 68 published opinions for the court (1936–1965). Most cited: State Ex Rel. Byrd v. Bomar (145 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. 32 of these were attributed to Holmes 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
1964	State Ex Rel. Byrd v. Bomar	381 S.W.2d 280	145
1965	State Ex Rel. Wood v. Johnson	393 S.W.2d 135	57
1963	Oman Construction Co. v. Tennessee Central, Railway Co.	370 S.W.2d 563	57
1964	Alex v. Armstrong	385 S.W.2d 110	48
1964	Dillingham v. Tri-State Insurance Co.	381 S.W.2d 914	36
1965	King v. State	391 S.W.2d 637	35
1965	Cox v. State	399 S.W.2d 776	31
1963	Ruth v. Ruth	372 S.W.2d 285	31
1965	Williams v. State	390 S.W.2d 234	28
1964	Shafer v. State	381 S.W.2d 254	27
1963	Provident Washington Insurance Company v. Reese	373 S.W.2d 613	27
1964	Burton v. State	377 S.W.2d 900	26
1965	Hawkins County v. Davis Ex Rel. Davis	391 S.W.2d 658	24
1965	Williams v. American Plan Corp.	392 S.W.2d 920	21
1965	Sunderhaus v. Perel & Lowenstein	388 S.W.2d 140	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 68 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 Andrew O. Holmes on?: Andrew O. Holmes was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Sources

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2 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).