How do judges of the Supreme Court of Arkansas reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 2011 / Former Justice

Courtney Hudson Goodson

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Courtney Hudson Goodson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1972 · age 54
Tenure: 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Arkansas
University of Houston

Judicial Record

In our data, Goodson authored 155 published opinions for the court (2011–2019), plus 19 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Henington v. State (127 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. 112 of these were attributed to Goodson 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
2012	Henington v. State†	403 S.W.3d 55	127
2014	Prock v. Bull Shoals Boat Landing· Dissent†	2014 Ark. 93	72
2012	Neal v. Sparks Regional Medical Center†	422 S.W.3d 116	61
2014	Lard v. State	2014 Ark. 1	56
2014	Jones v. Jones	2014 Ark. 96	53
2013	Adams v. State†	427 S.W.3d 63	49
2014	Asset Acceptance, LLC v. Newby	2014 Ark. 280	47
2014	Bank of the Ozarks Inc. v. Walker· Dissent†	2014 Ark. 223	47
2012	Arkansas Lottery Commission v. Alpha Marketing†	386 S.W.3d 400	46
2014	Bohannon v. Robinson· Concurrence†	2014 Ark. 458	43
2014	Walden v. State	2014 Ark. 193	43
2014	Conley v. State	2014 Ark. 172	40
2013	Courtyard Gardens Health & Rehabilitation, LLC v. Quarles· Dissent†	428 S.W.3d 437	40
2013	State v. Colvin†	427 S.W.3d 635	40
2019	Collins v. State†	571 S.W.3d 469	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 195 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 Courtney Hudson Goodson on?: Courtney Hudson Goodson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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