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 1991 / Served to 2014

Donald L. Corbin

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Donald L. Corbin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1938 · age 88
Tenure: 1991–2014 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Corbin authored 839 published opinions for the court (1991–2014), plus 75 dissents and 33 concurrences. Most cited: Young v. Rice (381 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. 346 of these were attributed to Corbin 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
1992	Young v. Rice	826 S.W.2d 252	381
2013	Roberts v. State†	425 S.W.3d 771	212
1997	J.T. v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	947 S.W.2d 761	210
2002	Lake View School District No. 25 v. Huckabee· Concurrence†	91 S.W.3d 472	132
2012	Sartin v. State†	400 S.W.3d 694	116
2005	Camarillo-Cox v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	201 S.W.3d 391	112
1996	Donovan v. Priest	931 S.W.2d 119	99
2000	Kurrus Ex Rel. Arkansans to Protect Police, Libraries, Education, & Services (APPLES) v. Priest†	29 S.W.3d 669	92
2000	Ferguson v. State	33 S.W.3d 115	89
1999	Hamilton v. Barrett	989 S.W.2d 520	88
2000	Noel v. State	26 S.W.3d 123	87
2001	Elam v. First Unum Life Insurance	57 S.W.3d 165	85
1997	Pugh v. Griggs	940 S.W.2d 445	85
1997	Olsten Kimberly Quality Care v. Pettey	944 S.W.2d 524	84
1999	White v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.	6 S.W.3d 98	83

Showing the 15 most-cited of 947 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 Donald L. Corbin on?: Donald L. Corbin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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23 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).