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 1949 / Served to 1950

Edwin Dunaway

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Edwin Dunaway was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1949–1950 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dunaway authored 55 published opinions for the court (1949–1950), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Self v. Taylor (20 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. 39 of these were attributed to Dunaway 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
1950	Self v. Taylor	235 S.W.2d 45	20
1950	Arkansas Workmen's Compensation Commission v. Sandy†	217 Ark. 821	19
1950	Wimberly v. State	228 S.W.2d 991	15
1950	Rogers v. Hill	232 S.W.2d 443	12
1950	Montgomery v. Blankenship	230 S.W.2d 51	12
1950	Batchelor v. State	230 S.W.2d 23	12
1950	Franks v. Wood	228 S.W.2d 480	12
1950	Boyd v. Dodge	234 S.W.2d 204	11
1950	Goggin v. Ratchford†	217 Ark. 180	11
1949	Quality Motors, Inc. v. Hays	225 S.W.2d 326	11
1950	Leister v. Chitwood†	216 Ark. 418	10
1950	Fort Smith Refrigeration & Equipment Co. v. Ferguson	230 S.W.2d 943	9
1950	Connell v. Robinson†	217 Ark. 1	8
1950	Ogle v. Hodge.†	217 Ark. 913	7
1950	Alston v. State†	216 Ark. 604	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 57 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 Edwin Dunaway on?: Edwin Dunaway was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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1 year 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).