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 2013 / Former Judge

Bill Walmsley

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Bill Walmsley was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Education

Lyon College
University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Walmsley authored 88 published opinions for the court (2013–2014), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Steele v. State (24 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. 12 of these were attributed to Walmsley 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
2014	Steele v. State†	434 S.W.3d 424	24
2013	K.O.P. v. State	2013 Ark. App. 667	14
2013	Baker v. Baker	2013 Ark. App. 543	14
2014	Robinson v. State	2014 Ark. App. 579	10
2014	U.S. Trust, Bank of America, N.A. v. First National Bank & Trust†	433 S.W.3d 911	10
2014	Watson v. Ark. Dep't of Human Servs.	2014 Ark. App. 28	10
2014	Duncan v. Ark. Dep't of Human Servs.	2014 Ark. App. 489	9
2014	Villasaldo v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2014 Ark. App. 465	9
2013	Firestone Building Products v. Hopson· Dissent†	2013 Ark. App. 618	9
2013	Essential Accounting Systems, Inc. v. Dewberry†	428 S.W.3d 613	9
2014	Bank of the Ozarks v. Cossey	2014 Ark. App. 581	6
2014	Shelby County Health Care Corp. v. Teague†	439 S.W.3d 74	6
2014	Stutte v. State	2014 Ark. App. 139	6
2013	J.A.C. v. State	2013 Ark. App. 496	6
2014	Johnson v. State	2014 Ark. App. 606	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 89 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 Bill Walmsley on?: Bill Walmsley was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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13 years 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).