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 1955 / Served to 1957

Astor Hogg

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Astor Hogg was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1955–1957 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hogg authored 50 published opinions for the court (1955–1956), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Harris v. Commonwealth (53 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. 34 of these were attributed to Hogg 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
1956	Harris v. Commonwealth	296 S.W.2d 700	53
1955	Brooks v. Meyers	279 S.W.2d 764	28
1955	Carver v. Howard	280 S.W.2d 708	22
1955	Tartar v. Tucker	280 S.W.2d 150	22
1956	Vaught's Administratrix v. Kentucky Utilities Co.	296 S.W.2d 459	21
1955	Fryman v. Electric Steam Radiator Corporation	277 S.W.2d 25	21
1955	Brown v. Commonwealth	275 S.W.2d 928	19
1956	Tarter v. Turpin	291 S.W.2d 547	16
1956	Nally v. Blandford	291 S.W.2d 832	14
1956	Green River Steel Corp. v. Globe Erection Company	294 S.W.2d 507	14
1955	Stasel v. Commonwealth	278 S.W.2d 727	13
1956	Drahmann's Administratrix v. Brink's Administratrix	290 S.W.2d 449	12
1956	Hayes Freight Lines, Inc. v. Burns	290 S.W.2d 836	11
1956	Clark v. Commonwealth	293 S.W.2d 465	10
1955	Prince v. Commonwealth	277 S.W.2d 470	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 51 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 was Astor Hogg on?: Astor Hogg was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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2 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).