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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas / Joined 1998 / Served to 1999

Argaret Meads

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Argaret Meads was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1998–1999 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Meads authored 41 published opinions for the court (1997–2000), plus 7 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Hollinger v. Hollinger (50 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 Meads 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
1999	Hollinger v. Hollinger· Dissent†	986 S.W.2d 105	50
1999	Cyphers v. United Parcel Service†	68 Ark. App. 62	24
1999	Anderson v. Holliday	986 S.W.2d 116	22
1998	Boyd v. Dana Corp.	966 S.W.2d 946	21
1998	Daniel v. State	983 S.W.2d 146	20
1997	Gregg v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	952 S.W.2d 183	20
1999	Thomas v. Thomas†	68 Ark. App. 196	19
1999	Green Bay Packaging v. Bartlett	999 S.W.2d 695	18
1998	Express Human Resources III/Spirit Homes, Inc. v. Terry	968 S.W.2d 630	18
1998	Ford v. Chemipulp Process, Inc.	977 S.W.2d 5	16
1998	Woodson v. Johnson	975 S.W.2d 880	15
1998	Shults v. Pulaski County Special School District	976 S.W.2d 399	15
2000	MDH Builders, Inc. v. Nabholz Construction Corp.	17 S.W.3d 97	13
2000	Campbell v. Randal Tyler Ford Mercury, Inc.	13 S.W.3d 916	13
1999	Ellison v. Therma-Tru· Dissent†	989 S.W.2d 927	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 50 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 Appeals of Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Argaret Meads on?: Argaret Meads was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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