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 1985 / Served to 1995

Jack Holt Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Jack Holt Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1929 · age 97
Tenure: 1985–1995 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Holt authored 529 published opinions for the court (1985–1995), plus 25 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Christian Civic Action Committee v. McCuen (398 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. 253 of these were attributed to Holt 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
1994	Christian Civic Action Committee v. McCuen	884 S.W.2d 605	398
1988	Sterling Drug, Inc. v. Oxford	743 S.W.2d 380	175
1988	Gardner v. State	754 S.W.2d 518	119
1986	White v. State	717 S.W.2d 784	113
1987	Parker v. State	731 S.W.2d 756	93
1994	Hill v. State	887 S.W.2d 275	88
1986	Berry v. State	718 S.W.2d 447	88
1993	Sheridan v. State	852 S.W.2d 772	83
1991	Arnold v. Kemp	813 S.W.2d 770	81
1992	Deitsch v. Tillery	833 S.W.2d 760	80
1985	Jim Halsey Co., Inc. v. Bonar	683 S.W.2d 898	77
1988	Bennett v. State	759 S.W.2d 799	76
1988	Plotts v. State	759 S.W.2d 793	74
1992	Wright v. Arkansas State Plant Board	842 S.W.2d 42	69
1993	Lupo v. Lineberger	855 S.W.2d 293	67

Showing the 15 most-cited of 569 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 Jack Holt Jr. on?: Jack Holt Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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9 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).