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 2011 / Served to 2012

Cliff Hoofman

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Cliff Hoofman was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2011–2012 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Hoofman authored 119 published opinions for the court (2011–2016). Most cited: Boudreau v. Pierce (23 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. 49 of these were attributed to Hoofman 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
2011	Boudreau v. Pierce†	384 S.W.3d 664	23
2015	Foster v. State	2015 Ark. App. 412	21
2012	Draper v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	389 S.W.3d 58	20
2012	Ozark Natural Food v. Pierson†	389 S.W.3d 105	18
2012	Chastain v. Chastain†	388 S.W.3d 495	18
2011	Conley v. State†	385 S.W.3d 875	18
2011	Pafford Medical Billing Services, Inc. v. Smith†	381 S.W.3d 921	17
2016	Sloop v. Kiker	2016 Ark. App. 125	16
2011	Milner v. Luttrell†	384 S.W.3d 1	15
2011	Anderson v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	387 S.W.3d 311	12
2011	Sutton v. Gardner†	387 S.W.3d 185	12
2016	Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism v. Price	2016 Ark. App. 109	11
2012	McCormick v. McCormick†	416 S.W.3d 770	11
2011	Roberts v. Jackson†	384 S.W.3d 28	11
2015	Matlock v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2015 Ark. App. 184	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 119 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 Cliff Hoofman on?: Cliff Hoofman was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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1 year 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).