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 1967 / Served to 1977

J Fred Jones

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

J Fred Jones was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1967–1977 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 456 published opinions for the court (1967–1977), plus 42 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Commercial Printing Co. v. Rush (49 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. 411 of these were attributed to Jones 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
1977	Commercial Printing Co. v. Rush· Dissent†	549 S.W.2d 790	49
1971	Franklin v. State· Dissent†	471 S.W.2d 760	42
1969	Neal v. Oliver	438 S.W.2d 313	41
1969	Ashley v. Eisele	445 S.W.2d 76	39
1976	Shinn v. Heath	535 S.W.2d 57	38
1973	Holcomb v. Farmers Insurance Exchange	495 S.W.2d 155	38
1968	Wilson & Co. v. Christman	424 S.W.2d 863	32
1967	St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. Wood Et Al· Dissent†	416 S.W.2d 322	32
1975	Bedell v. State· Dissent†	521 S.W.2d 200	26
1970	Harvey v. Ridgeway	450 S.W.2d 281	26
1975	Sims v. State· Dissent†	530 S.W.2d 182	25
1972	Satterfield v. Rebsamen Ford, Inc.	485 S.W.2d 192	25
1970	Glover v. State· Dissent†	455 S.W.2d 670	25
1968	Petty v. State	434 S.W.2d 602	25
1976	Beam v. Monsanto Co., Inc.	532 S.W.2d 175	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 505 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 J Fred Jones on?: J Fred Jones was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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10 years 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).