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 1981 / Served to 1992

George K. Cracraft Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

George K. Cracraft Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1922–2011
Tenure: 1981–1992 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Education

Sewanee-The University of the South
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Cracraft authored 340 published opinions for the court (1981–1995), plus 20 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Bearden Lumber Co. v. Bond (85 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. 260 of these were attributed to Cracraft 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
1983	Bearden Lumber Co. v. Bond	644 S.W.2d 321	85
1981	Andres v. Andres	613 S.W.2d 404	78
1986	Watts v. Watts	707 S.W.2d 777	44
1989	Lee v. State	770 S.W.2d 148	40
1982	Walker v. Stephens	626 S.W.2d 200	38
1987	Banning v. State	737 S.W.2d 167	37
1986	Duffner v. Alberty	718 S.W.2d 111	37
1989	Johnson v. Hux	772 S.W.2d 362	34
1992	Deffenbaugh Industries & Travelers Insurance v. Angus· Dissent†	832 S.W.2d 869	32
1987	Thigpen v. Carpenter· Concurrence†	730 S.W.2d 510	30
1981	Calhoun v. Calhoun	625 S.W.2d 545	28
1984	Sanyo Manufacturing Corp. v. Leisure	675 S.W.2d 841	25
1983	Paulson v. Paulson	652 S.W.2d 46	25
1985	Odaware v. Robertson Aerial-AG, Inc.	683 S.W.2d 624	24
1984	City of Fayetteville v. Guess	663 S.W.2d 946	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 375 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 was George K. Cracraft Jr. on?: George K. Cracraft Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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11 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).