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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Kentucky Court of Appeals / Joined 2006 / Active

Glenn Acree

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Glenn Acree is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky

Judicial Record

In our data, Acree authored 171 published opinions for the court (2006–2026), plus 1 dissent and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Hallis v. Hallis (191 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. 154 of these were attributed to Acree 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
2010	Hallis v. Hallis†	328 S.W.3d 694	191
2007	Keeney v. Keeney†	223 S.W.3d 843	53
2007	Jenkins Ex Rel. Branum v. Best†	250 S.W.3d 680	50
2009	McDONALD'S CORP. v. Ogborn†	309 S.W.3d 274	46
2012	A.C. v. Cabinet for Health & Family Services†	362 S.W.3d 361	44
2011	Harstad v. Whiteman†	338 S.W.3d 804	42
2017	Owens v. Commonwealth†	512 S.W.3d 1	41
2011	Tax Ease Lein Investments 1, LLC v. Brown†	340 S.W.3d 99	38
2014	Ford Contracting, Inc. v. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet†	429 S.W.3d 397	25
2009	Watkins v. Fannin†	278 S.W.3d 637	25
2012	Shafizadeh v. Shafizadeh†	444 S.W.3d 437	22
2009	Stipp v. Charles†	291 S.W.3d 720	21
2008	S.J.L.S. v. T.L.S.†	265 S.W.3d 804	21
2015	McVicker v. McVicker· Concurrence†	461 S.W.3d 404	20
2007	Brooks v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Housing Authority†	244 S.W.3d 747	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 179 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 Kentucky Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Glenn Acree on?: Glenn Acree is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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