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 1992 / Active

Elizabeth W. Danielson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Elizabeth W. Danielson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, serving since 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1992 · 34 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Danielson authored 26 published opinions for the court (1991–1992). Most cited: City of Fort Smith v. Brooks (47 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. 14 of these were attributed to Danielson 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
1992	City of Fort Smith v. Brooks	842 S.W.2d 463	47
1992	Bright v. Gass	831 S.W.2d 149	28
1992	Belue v. Belue	828 S.W.2d 855	19
1992	Public Employee Claims Division v. Tiner	822 S.W.2d 400	19
1991	Campbell & Co. v. Utica Mutual Insurance	820 S.W.2d 284	18
1991	Federated Mutual Insurance v. Bennett	818 S.W.2d 596	17
1992	Kendrick v. State	823 S.W.2d 931	16
1992	Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Couch†	38 Ark. App. 165	15
1991	Department of Human Services Ex Rel. Davis v. Seamster	820 S.W.2d 298	15
1992	Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Gruber†	39 Ark. App. 112	12
1991	Arkansas Department of Correction v. Glover	812 S.W.2d 692	12
1992	Helena-West Helena School District v. Davis	843 S.W.2d 873	7
1992	City of Fort Smith v. Tate†	38 Ark. App. 172	7
1991	Heral v. Smith	803 S.W.2d 938	7
1992	Brown v. State	827 S.W.2d 174	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 26 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 is Elizabeth W. Danielson on?: Elizabeth W. Danielson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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34 years 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).