How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee / Joined 2003 / Active

Frank G. Clement Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Tennessee

Frank G. Clement Jr. is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Court of Appeals of Tennessee	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Clement authored 880 published opinions for the court (2001–2026), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Kathryn A. Duke v. Harold W. Duke, III (149 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. 24 of these were attributed to Clement 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
2012	Kathryn A. Duke v. Harold W. Duke, III	398 S.W.3d 665	149
2015	Gooding v. Gooding†	477 S.W.3d 774	116
2006	In re S.L.A.†	223 S.W.3d 295	113
2006	Kincaid v. SouthTrust Bank	221 S.W.3d 32	101
2004	Johnson v. Nissan North America, Inc.	146 S.W.3d 600	99
2009	Forrest Construction Co. v. Laughlin	337 S.W.3d 211	93
2008	In re R.L.F.†	278 S.W.3d 305	83
2006	State ex. rel. Flowers v. Tennessee Trucking Ass'n Self Insurance Group Trust†	209 S.W.3d 602	67
2015	James R. Vandergriff v. Parkridge East Hospital	482 S.W.3d 545	63
2008	Ferguson v. Brown	291 S.W.3d 381	62
2009	In re of H.L.F.†	297 S.W.3d 223	61
2005	In Re Estate of Greenamyre· Concurrence†	219 S.W.3d 877	57
2006	Barnes & Robinson Co. v. OneSource Facility Services, Inc.	195 S.W.3d 637	55
2010	In Re Heaven L.F.	311 S.W.3d 435	54
2016	Christina Lee Cain-Swope v. Robert David Swope†	523 S.W.3d 79	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 884 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 Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Frank G. Clement Jr. on?: Frank G. Clement Jr. is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee.

Sources

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23 years on the Court of Appeals of Tennessee. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).