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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Kentucky / Joined 1999 / Served to 2006

James E. Keller

Justice, Supreme Court of Kentucky

James E. Keller was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1942–2014
Tenure: 1999–2006 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Supreme Court of Kentucky	–	–

Education

University of Kentucky

Judicial Record

In our data, Keller authored 75 published opinions for the court (1999–2006), plus 57 dissents and 67 concurrences. Most cited: Moore v. Asente (469 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. 153 of these were attributed to Keller 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
2003	Moore v. Asente†	110 S.W.3d 336	469
2004	Hoskins v. Maricle· Concurrence†	150 S.W.3d 1	335
2003	Frear v. P.T.A. Industries, Inc.	103 S.W.3d 99	223
2003	Pathways, Inc. v. Hammons· Concurrence†	113 S.W.3d 85	200
2004	Grange Mutual Insurance Co. v. Trude	151 S.W.3d 803	193
2004	Miller v. Eldridge	146 S.W.3d 909	186
2001	Stopher v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	57 S.W.3d 787	169
2004	Stringer v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.†	151 S.W.3d 781	149
2004	Soto v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	139 S.W.3d 827	139
2004	Presnell Construction Managers, Inc. v. EH Construction, LLC· Concurrence†	134 S.W.3d 575	137
2004	Brooks v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Housing Authority· Concurrence†	132 S.W.3d 790	132
2001	Fraser v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	59 S.W.3d 448	129
2004	Sexton v. Sexton	125 S.W.3d 258	112
2005	Bowling v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	163 S.W.3d 361	107
2005	Matthews v. Commonwealth	163 S.W.3d 11	106

Showing the 15 most-cited of 199 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 Kentucky reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was James E. Keller on?: James E. Keller was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Sources

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7 years on the Supreme Court of Kentucky. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).