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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee / Joined 1986 / Served to 2014

David Farmer

Judge, Court of Appeals of Tennessee

David Farmer was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1986–2014 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Court of Appeals of Tennessee	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Farmer authored 1,161 published opinions for the court (1986–2014), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: In re C.W.W. (365 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. 106 of these were attributed to Farmer 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
2000	In re C.W.W.†	37 S.W.3d 467	365
2005	In re M.L.D.†	182 S.W.3d 890	305
1996	Herrera v. Herrera	944 S.W.2d 379	291
2002	In re A.D.A.†	84 S.W.3d 592	213
1991	Barnhill v. Barnhill	826 S.W.2d 443	212
2008	Flautt & Mann v. Council of City of Memphis	285 S.W.3d 856	186
2002	Eldridge v. Eldridge	137 S.W.3d 1	175
1992	Storey v. Storey	835 S.W.2d 593	171
1992	Houghland v. Houghland	844 S.W.2d 619	166
1990	Airline Construction, Inc. v. Barr	807 S.W.2d 247	159
2002	CHILDRENS v. Union Realty Co., Ltd.	97 S.W.3d 573	137
1997	Watters v. Watters	959 S.W.2d 585	129
1993	Loyd v. Loyd	860 S.W.2d 409	121
1996	Varley v. Varley	934 S.W.2d 659	118
1990	Stacks v. Saunders	812 S.W.2d 587	112

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,163 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 Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was David Farmer on?: David Farmer was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee.

Sources

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