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 / Active

Brandon Harrison

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Brandon Harrison is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Harrison authored 303 published opinions for the court (2013–2019), plus 17 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Sharks v. Arkansas Department of Human Services & Minor Child (45 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. 122 of these were attributed to Harrison 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
2016	Sharks v. Arkansas Department of Human Services & Minor Child†	2016 Ark. App. 435	45
2013	Rose v. Rose· Dissent†	427 S.W.3d 698	36
2017	Smith v. Murphy	2017 Ark. App. 188	33
2019	Clark v. Ark. Dep't of Human Servs.†	575 S.W.3d 578	26
2015	Sawada v. Walmart Stores, Inc.	2015 Ark. App. 549	23
2015	Steele v. Lyon· Concurrence†	460 S.W.3d 827	20
2017	Wilson v. Director, Department of Workforce Services· Dissent†	2017 Ark. App. 171	19
2015	Brumley v. Arkansas Department of Human Services· Dissent†	2015 Ark. App. 90	18
2016	Madden v. Mercedes-Benz USA, Inc.	2016 Ark. App. 45	16
2015	A.D. v. State	2015 Ark. App. 35	16
2016	Courtyard Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, LLC v. Williamson· Concurrence†	2016 Ark. App. 606	14
2015	A.D. v. State†	453 S.W.3d 696	13
2016	Godwin v. Garland County Landfill†	2016 Ark. App. 498	12
2015	Family Dollar Trucking, Inc. v. Huff· Concurrence†	2015 Ark. App. 574	12
2014	Weathers v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2014 Ark. App. 142	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 329 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 is Brandon Harrison on?: Brandon Harrison is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

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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).