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 1977 / Served to 1990

Darrell Hickman

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Darrell Hickman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1977–1990 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hickman authored 638 published opinions for the court (1977–1990), plus 152 dissents and 120 concurrences. Most cited: Arkansas Women's Political Caucus v. Riviere (461 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. 673 of these were attributed to Hickman 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
1984	Arkansas Women's Political Caucus v. Riviere· Dissent†	677 S.W.2d 846	461
1989	McCambridge v. City of Little Rock· Concurrence†	766 S.W.2d 909	247
1977	Collins v. State· Dissent†	548 S.W.2d 106	143
1984	Penn v. State	670 S.W.2d 426	142
1984	Berna v. State	670 S.W.2d 434	131
1982	Hill v. State· Concurrence†	628 S.W.2d 284	122
1979	Dodrill v. Arkansas Democrat Co.· Dissent†	590 S.W.2d 840	118
1980	Jones v. State	598 S.W.2d 748	112
1989	State ex rel. Robinson v. Craighead County Board of Election Commissioners†	300 Ark. 405	105
1984	Day v. Day· Dissent†	663 S.W.2d 719	100
1983	DuPree v. Alma School District No. 30· Concurrence†	651 S.W.2d 90	99
1987	Parker v. State· Concurrence†	731 S.W.2d 756	93
1984	Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Broadway Arms Corp.· Concurrence†	664 S.W.2d 463	90
1986	Berry v. State· Dissent†	718 S.W.2d 447	88
1986	Rad-Razorback Ltd. Partnership v. B.G. Coney Co.· Dissent†	713 S.W.2d 462	79

Showing the 15 most-cited of 912 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 Darrell Hickman on?: Darrell Hickman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

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13 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).