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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1995 / Served to 1996

Bradley D. Jesson

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Bradley D. Jesson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1932 · age 94
Tenure: 1995–1996

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Tulsa

Judicial Record

In our data, Jesson authored 71 published opinions for the court (1977–1996), plus 3 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Misskelley v. State (107 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. 30 of these were attributed to Jesson 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
1996	Misskelley v. State	915 S.W.2d 702	107
1996	Kemp v. State	919 S.W.2d 943	84
1996	Jones v. Jones	931 S.W.2d 767	79
1996	Citizens to Establish a Reform Party v. Priest†	325 Ark. 257	76
1996	City of Lowell v. M & N Mobile Home Park, Inc.· Dissent†	916 S.W.2d 95	66
1996	Davis v. State	925 S.W.2d 768	57
1996	Arkansas State Medical Board v. Bolding†	324 Ark. 238	47
1995	Kilpatrick v. State	912 S.W.2d 917	45
1996	Ferrell v. State	929 S.W.2d 697	41
1977	Schultz v. Rector-Phillips-Morse, Inc.	552 S.W.2d 4	41
1996	Lee v. State	932 S.W.2d 756	40
1996	Owens v. State	926 S.W.2d 650	37
1996	Cherepski v. Walker	913 S.W.2d 761	36
1995	Griffin v. State	909 S.W.2d 625	32
1996	Abernathy v. State	925 S.W.2d 380	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 76 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 Bradley D. Jesson on?: Bradley D. Jesson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1995. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).