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 2006 / Active

Donna L. Dixon

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Donna L. Dixon is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Murray State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dixon authored 82 published opinions for the court (2007–2019), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Baird v. Baird (78 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. 83 of these were attributed to Dixon 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
2007	Baird v. Baird†	234 S.W.3d 385	78
2019	Prescott v. Commonwealth†	572 S.W.3d 913	53
2008	Gomez v. Gomez†	254 S.W.3d 838	45
2016	Insight Kentucky Partners II, L.P. v. Preferred Automotive Services, Inc.†	514 S.W.3d 537	37
2008	McKinney v. McKinney†	257 S.W.3d 130	37
2012	Hohman v. Dery†	371 S.W.3d 780	34
2007	Lee v. Farmer's Rural Electric Cooperative Corp.†	245 S.W.3d 209	24
2017	Vorherr v. Coldiron†	525 S.W.3d 532	19
2017	Middleton v. Sampey†	522 S.W.3d 875	17
2007	Jackson v. Tullar†	285 S.W.3d 290	17
2014	Elsea v. Day†	448 S.W.3d 259	16
2012	Brumfield v. Stinson†	368 S.W.3d 116	16
2018	Tavadia v. Mitchell†	564 S.W.3d 322	14
2007	Manning v. Wilkinson†	264 S.W.3d 620	14
2015	Pauly v. Chang†	498 S.W.3d 394	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 83 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 is Donna L. Dixon on?: Donna L. Dixon is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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20 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).