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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 2008 / Served to 2010

Elana Cunningham Wills

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Elana Cunningham Wills was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1962 · age 64
Tenure: 2008–2010 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wills authored 49 published opinions for the court (2008–2010), plus 6 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Powell v. Lane (52 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. 36 of these were attributed to Wills 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
2008	Powell v. Lane· Dissent†	289 S.W.3d 440	52
2010	Lamontagne v. Arkansas Department of Human Services· Concurrence†	366 S.W.3d 351	39
2009	Richie v. State	357 S.W.3d 909	31
2010	Johnson v. Dawson†	365 S.W.3d 913	29
2009	Jackson v. State	290 S.W.3d 574	28
2010	Norris v. State†	368 S.W.3d 52	27
2010	Fletcher v. Scorza· Dissent†	359 S.W.3d 413	27
2009	Gentry v. Robinson†	361 S.W.3d 788	26
2009	Union Pacific Railroad v. Vickers	308 S.W.3d 573	25
2010	Parker v. Crow· Concurrence†	368 S.W.3d 902	23
2009	Williamson v. State	350 S.W.3d 787	23
2009	DePriest v. Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals, L.P.	351 S.W.3d 168	23
2008	Reeves v. State	288 S.W.3d 577	22
2009	Seth v. St. Edward Mercy Medical Center	291 S.W.3d 179	21
2010	Gilliland v. State†	361 S.W.3d 279	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 66 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 Elana Cunningham Wills on?: Elana Cunningham Wills was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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2 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).