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 1966 / Served to 1967

Hugh Martin Bland

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Hugh Martin Bland was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1966–1967 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bland authored 23 published opinions for the court (1966). Most cited: Dougan v. Booker (11 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. 16 of these were attributed to Bland 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
1966	Dougan v. Booker	407 S.W.2d 369	11
1966	Green Chev. Co. v. Kemp	406 S.W.2d 142	10
1966	Carson v. Hercules Powder Co.	402 S.W.2d 640	10
1966	Ark. La. Gas Company v. Wood	403 S.W.2d 54	9
1966	Farmers Cooperative Ass'n v. Phillips†	241 Ark. 28	7
1966	Warren v. State†	241 Ark. 264	6
1966	Dokes v. State	409 S.W.2d 827	5
1966	Hunter v. Dixon†	241 Ark. 725	5
1966	Hardin v. Pennington†	240 Ark. 1000	5
1966	Harris v. Searcy Fed. Savings & Loan Ass'n†	241 Ark. 520	4
1966	Owen v. Merts	405 S.W.2d 273	4
1966	City of Helena v. Barrow	408 S.W.2d 867	3
1966	Davis v. State†	241 Ark. 646	3
1966	Nowak v. Etchieson†	241 Ark. 328	3
1966	Rice v. State†	241 Ark. 570	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 23 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 Hugh Martin Bland on?: Hugh Martin Bland 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).