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 1979 / Served to 1980

David Newbern

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

David Newbern was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1979–1980 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Newbern authored 90 published opinions for the court (1979–1980), plus 19 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Williams v. Arkansas Oak Flooring Co. (32 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. 116 of these were attributed to Newbern 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
1979	Williams v. Arkansas Oak Flooring Co.	590 S.W.2d 328	32
1980	Caldwell v. State· Concurrence†	594 S.W.2d 24	29
1979	M. M. Cohn Co. v. Haile	589 S.W.2d 600	28
1980	Price v. State	599 S.W.2d 394	24
1980	Woodard v. ITT Higbie Manufacturing Co.	609 S.W.2d 115	18
1980	FARM BUR. MUT. INC. CO. OF ARKANSAS v. Shaw	600 S.W.2d 432	15
1979	Ellis v. State· Dissent†	590 S.W.2d 309	15
1980	Sunbeam Corp. v. Bates· Dissent†	609 S.W.2d 102	13
1980	Shinn v. First Nat. Bank of Hope	606 S.W.2d 154	13
1979	Rawhide Farms, Inc. v. Darby	589 S.W.2d 210	13
1980	Garrison v. State†	270 Ark. 426	11
1980	Warren v. Warren· Dissent†	270 Ark. 163	11
1980	Woods v. Employment Security Division· Concurrence†	269 Ark. 613	11
1979	Milne v. Milne	587 S.W.2d 229	11
1980	Hawkins v. State†	270 Ark. 1016	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 125 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 David Newbern on?: David Newbern 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).