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 1975 / Served to 1977

Elsijane Trimble Roy

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Elsijane Trimble Roy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–2007
Tenure: 1975–1977 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Roy authored 53 published opinions for the court (1975–1977), plus 4 dissents. Most cited: Pope v. State (44 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. 57 of these were attributed to Roy 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
1977	Pope v. State†	557 S.W.2d 887	44
1977	Martin v. State†	547 S.W.2d 81	36
1976	Gambill v. Stroud· Dissent†	531 S.W.2d 945	34
1976	City of Fort Smith v. Bates†	260 Ark. 777	20
1976	Skelton v. BC Land Co., Inc.· Dissent†	539 S.W.2d 411	17
1976	Martin v. Hefley†	533 S.W.2d 521	17
1977	Harvey v. State†	545 S.W.2d 913	15
1976	Jordan v. Adams†	533 S.W.2d 210	15
1975	Ross v. Arkansas Communities, Inc.†	529 S.W.2d 876	15
1977	Harper v. Pearson†	262 Ark. 294	14
1976	Strode v. State†	259 Ark. 859	14
1977	Dillaha Fruit Co. v. LaTourrette†	262 Ark. 434	13
1977	Elkins v. Elkins†	553 S.W.2d 34	13
1976	Austin v. State†	259 Ark. 802	13
1975	Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. of Arkansas, Inc. v. Lyon†	528 S.W.2d 932	13

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 Elsijane Trimble Roy on?: Elsijane Trimble Roy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

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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).