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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 2004 / Served to 2006

Betty Dickey

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Betty Dickey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2004–2006 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Dickey authored 89 published opinions for the court (2004–2006), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Grant v. State (69 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. 8 of these were attributed to Dickey 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	Grant v. State	161 S.W.3d 785	69
2005	Alphin v. Alphin· Dissent†	219 S.W.3d 160	61
2004	Greene v. State	146 S.W.3d 871	58
2006	State v. Townsend	233 S.W.3d 680	40
2005	Unum Life Insurance Co. of America v. Edwards	210 S.W.3d 84	37
2006	Hamm v. State	232 S.W.3d 463	36
2006	Nelson v. State	229 S.W.3d 35	35
2004	Jurisdictionusa, Inc. v. loislaw.com, Inc.	183 S.W.3d 560	33
2006	Delanno, Inc. v. Peace	237 S.W.3d 81	32
2004	Mangrum v. Pigue	198 S.W.3d 496	32
2005	Ridling v. State	203 S.W.3d 63	31
2005	Fells v. State	207 S.W.3d 498	28
2005	Young v. Gastro-Intestinal Center, Inc.	205 S.W.3d 741	28
2005	Burks v. State	210 S.W.3d 62	26
2004	Volunteer Transport, Inc. v. House	162 S.W.3d 456	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 94 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 Betty Dickey on?: Betty Dickey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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2 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).