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Supreme Court of Kentucky / Joined 1991 / Served to 1996

Charles H. Reynolds

Justice, Supreme Court of Kentucky

Charles H. Reynolds was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–1996
Tenure: 1991–1996 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Supreme Court of Kentucky	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Reynolds authored 52 published opinions for the court (1991–1996), plus 11 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Steelvest, Inc. v. Scansteel Service Center, Inc. (1,300 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. 34 of these were attributed to Reynolds 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
1991	Steelvest, Inc. v. Scansteel Service Center, Inc.	807 S.W.2d 476	1,300
1992	Morganfield National Bank v. Damien Elder & Sons	836 S.W.2d 893	83
1994	Kentucky Harlan Coal Co. v. Holmes†	872 S.W.2d 446	64
1994	Jacobs v. Commonwealth	870 S.W.2d 412	61
1992	Munday v. Mayfair Diagnostic Laboratory· Dissent†	831 S.W.2d 912	54
1996	LaFollette v. Commonwealth	915 S.W.2d 747	49
1992	Sommers v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	843 S.W.2d 879	49
1993	Derossett v. Commonwealth	867 S.W.2d 195	38
1993	Johnson v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	864 S.W.2d 266	35
1992	Transit Authority of River City v. Montgomery	836 S.W.2d 413	34
1995	Stephens v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.	894 S.W.2d 624	33
1995	Associated Industries of Kentucky v. Commonwealth	912 S.W.2d 947	29
1992	Wright v. Sullivan Payne Co.	839 S.W.2d 250	29
1992	Barbour v. Commonwealth	824 S.W.2d 861	29
1994	Commonwealth v. Jones	880 S.W.2d 544	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 64 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 Kentucky reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Charles H. Reynolds on?: Charles H. Reynolds was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky.

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