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 1980 / Served to 1980

Harold W. Flowers

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Harold W. Flowers was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1911–1990
Tenure: 1980–1980

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Flowers authored 2 published opinions for the court (1980). Most cited: Talley v. Blackmon (6 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. 2 of these were attributed to Flowers 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
1980	Talley v. Blackmon†	271 Ark. 494	6
1980	Duckins v. State†	271 Ark. 658	0

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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 Harold W. Flowers on?: Harold W. Flowers was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1980. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).