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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee / Joined 2014 / Active

Brandon O. Gibson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Tennessee

Brandon O. Gibson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Court of Appeals of Tennessee	–	–

Education

Southern Methodist University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gibson authored 194 published opinions for the court (2014–2019), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Kisha Dean Trezevant v. Stanley H. Trezevant, III (57 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 Gibson 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
2018	Kisha Dean Trezevant v. Stanley H. Trezevant, III	568 S.W.3d 595	57
2015	Betty Goff C. Cartwright v. Jackson Capital Partners, Limited Partnership	478 S.W.3d 596	53
2015	Mitch Goree v. United Parcel Service, Inc.	490 S.W.3d 413	35
2015	Cadence Bank, NA v. The Alpha Trust	473 S.W.3d 756	33
2016	Joan Stephens v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.†	529 S.W.3d 63	28
2016	Troy v. RFD-TV The Theater, LLC†	498 S.W.3d 550	25
2017	Tennison Brothers, Inc. v. William H. Thomas, Jr.	556 S.W.3d 697	22
2015	Southern Trust Insurance Company v. Matthew Phillips	474 S.W.3d 660	22
2015	Alex Friedmann v. Marshall County, TN· Concurrence†	471 S.W.3d 427	17
2017	Shayla Nicole Purifoy v. Devine Mafa	556 S.W.3d 170	15
2016	M & M Electrical Contractor, Inc. v. Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation†	529 S.W.3d 413	15
2015	Michael Savage v. City of Memphis	464 S.W.3d 326	15
2015	In Re Joseph Brown	470 S.W.3d 433	14
2014	Potter's Shopping Center, Inc. v. Szekely†	461 S.W.3d 68	14
2015	City of Memphis v. Shelby County, Tennessee	469 S.W.3d 531	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 196 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 Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Brandon O. Gibson on?: Brandon O. Gibson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee.

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