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 2011 / Served to 2012

Doug Martin

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Doug Martin was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2011–2012 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Martin authored 68 published opinions for the court (2011–2012), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Renfro v. Arkansas Department of Human Services (36 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. 69 of these were attributed to Martin 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
2011	Renfro v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	385 S.W.3d 285	36
2012	Tiner v. Tiner†	422 S.W.3d 178	28
2012	Grayson & Grayson, P.A. v. Couch†	388 S.W.3d 96	15
2011	Bryant v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	383 S.W.3d 901	13
2012	Dobbs v. Discover Bank†	425 S.W.3d 50	12
2011	Smith v. Commercial Metals Co.†	382 S.W.3d 764	11
2012	Wells v. State†	424 S.W.3d 378	10
2011	Worley v. City of Jonesboro†	385 S.W.3d 908	10
2011	Hope School District v. Wilson†	382 S.W.3d 782	10
2012	Turner v. State†	391 S.W.3d 358	9
2012	Jones v. State†	388 S.W.3d 503	9
2011	Fox v. Nagle†	381 S.W.3d 900	9
2012	Smith v. State†	423 S.W.3d 624	8
2012	Andrews v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	388 S.W.3d 63	8
2011	Hobby v. Walker†	385 S.W.3d 331	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 69 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 Doug Martin on?: Doug Martin 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).