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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1997 / Served to 2009

Annabelle Clinton Imber

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Annabelle Clinton Imber was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1950 · age 76
Tenure: 1997–2009 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Imber authored 429 published opinions for the court (1997–2009), plus 75 dissents and 72 concurrences. Most cited: Linker-Flores v. Arkansas Department of Human Services (350 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. 220 of these were attributed to Imber 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
2004	Linker-Flores v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	194 S.W.3d 739	350
2003	Grillot v. State	107 S.W.3d 136	164
2000	Roberts v. Priest	20 S.W.3d 376	160
2003	Anderson v. State	108 S.W.3d 592	111
1998	Adams v. Arthur	969 S.W.2d 598	110
2002	Jegley v. Picado	80 S.W.3d 332	100
2002	Ford v. Ford	65 S.W.3d 432	94
2003	Smith v. Sidney Moncrief Pontiac, Buick, GMC Co.	120 S.W.3d 525	93
2000	Kurrus Ex Rel. Arkansans to Protect Police, Libraries, Education, & Services (APPLES) v. Priest· Dissent†	29 S.W.3d 669	92
2000	Gaines v. State	8 S.W.3d 547	92
1998	Frette v. City of Springdale	959 S.W.2d 734	86
2000	Harmon v. State	8 S.W.3d 472	85
2007	Posey v. ARKANSAS DEPT. OF HEALTH HUMAN SERV.	262 S.W.3d 159	83
1998	ERC Contractor Yard & Sales v. Robertson	977 S.W.2d 212	82
1998	Ester v. National Home Centers, Inc.	981 S.W.2d 91	81

Showing the 15 most-cited of 576 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 Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Annabelle Clinton Imber on?: Annabelle Clinton Imber was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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