How do judges of the Kentucky Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Kentucky Court of Appeals / Joined 2000 / Served to 2007

David A. Barber

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

David A. Barber was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2007 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Barber authored 45 published opinions for the court (2000–2007), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Banks v. Fritsch (90 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. 24 of these were attributed to Barber 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
2001	Banks v. Fritsch	39 S.W.3d 474	90
2003	Rivermont Inn, Inc. v. Bass Hotels Resorts, Inc.	113 S.W.3d 636	84
2005	Benningfield v. Pettit Environmental, Inc.	183 S.W.3d 567	57
2001	Cole v. Gilvin	59 S.W.3d 468	39
2006	Reece v. Dixie Warehouse and Cartage Co.	188 S.W.3d 440	27
2001	Consalvi v. Cawood	63 S.W.3d 195	23
2001	Sexton v. Bates†	41 S.W.3d 452	23
2001	Colston Investment Co. v. Home Supply Co.†	74 S.W.3d 759	17
2005	Rogers Group, Inc. v. Masterson†	175 S.W.3d 630	15
2002	Francis v. Crounse Corp.	98 S.W.3d 62	12
2005	Poe v. Commonwealth†	169 S.W.3d 54	11
2005	Gomez v. Gomez†	168 S.W.3d 51	11
2006	Brockman v. Commonwealth	185 S.W.3d 205	10
2000	Clements v. Moore· Dissent†	55 S.W.3d 838	10
2000	Ware v. Commonwealth†	34 S.W.3d 383	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 47 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 Kentucky Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was David A. Barber on?: David A. Barber was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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