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 1967 / Served to 1993

James Chenault

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

James Chenault was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1967–1993 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Chenault authored 1 published opinion for the court (1974).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 1 of these was attributed to Chenault 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
1974	Rucker v. Burke†	514 S.W.2d 423	0

Showing the 1 most-cited of 1 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 was James Chenault on?: James Chenault was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

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26 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).