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 1997 / Served to 1998

D Franklin Arey III

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

D Franklin Arey III was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1997–1998 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Arey authored 8 published opinions for the court (1997–1998), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: McMillan v. U.S. Motors (36 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. 4 of these were attributed to Arey 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
1997	McMillan v. U.S. Motors	953 S.W.2d 907	36
1997	Stephens Truck Lines v. Millican· Concurrence†	950 S.W.2d 472	32
1998	Oak Grove Lumber Co. v. Highfill	968 S.W.2d 637	28
1998	Service Chevrolet v. Atwood	966 S.W.2d 909	23
1998	Franklin v. State· Dissent†	962 S.W.2d 370	23
1997	University of Arkansas Medical Sciences v. Hart	958 S.W.2d 546	22
1998	Bishop v. Bishop	961 S.W.2d 770	20
1998	Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. Carter· Dissent†	969 S.W.2d 677	15
1998	Sapp v. Phelphs Trucking, Inc.	984 S.W.2d 817	12
1998	McGill v. State	962 S.W.2d 382	11
1998	Tri-State Insurance v. B & L Products, Inc.· Concurrence†	964 S.W.2d 402	5
1997	Meyer v. RIVERDALE HARBOR MUN. PROPERTY	947 S.W.2d 20	0

Showing the 12 most-cited of 12 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 D Franklin Arey III on?: D Franklin Arey III 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).