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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1943 / Served to 1966

Ed F. McFaddin

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Ed F. McFaddin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1943–1966 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McFaddin authored 1,016 published opinions for the court (1943–1966), plus 201 dissents and 82 concurrences. Most cited: Leigh v. Hall (451 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. 651 of these were attributed to McFaddin 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
1960	Leigh v. Hall· Dissent†	339 S.W.2d 104	451
1952	Hare v. General Contract Purchase Corp.	249 S.W.2d 973	131
1957	Mo. Pac. Trans. Co. v. Miller· Concurrence†	299 S.W.2d 41	68
1962	Walton v. Tull· Dissent†	356 S.W.2d 20	67
1961	Holmes v. Hollingsworth	352 S.W.2d 96	58
1959	Andres v. First Ark. Development Finance Corp.	324 S.W.2d 97	58
1956	Halbert v. Helena-West Helena Industrial Development Corp.	291 S.W.2d 802	58
1943	J. L. Williams & Sons, Inc. v. Smith· Dissent	170 S.W.2d 82	55
1949	Gipson v. Ingram	223 S.W.2d 595	53
1943	Oviatt, Administrator v. Garretson	171 S.W.2d 287	52
1961	Peugh v. Oliger	345 S.W.2d 610	50
1953	Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Byars· Dissent†	256 S.W.2d 738	50
1952	City of Ft. Smith v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.	247 S.W.2d 474	48
1959	Jones v. State	320 S.W.2d 645	45
1959	Clubb v. State· Concurrence†	326 S.W.2d 816	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,299 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 Ed F. McFaddin on?: Ed F. McFaddin 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).