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 2006 / Served to 2009

James H. Lambert

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

James H. Lambert was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2006–2009 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Eastern Kentucky University

Judicial Record

In our data, Lambert authored 50 published opinions for the court (2007–2025), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Jones v. Sparks (72 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. 46 of these were attributed to Lambert 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
2009	Jones v. Sparks†	297 S.W.3d 73	72
2009	Morgan v. Bird†	289 S.W.3d 222	56
2008	Young v. Carran†	289 S.W.3d 586	43
2007	Haugh v. City of Louisville†	242 S.W.3d 683	42
2008	Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services, Inc. v. Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government†	270 S.W.3d 904	23
2007	Smith v. Vest· Dissent†	265 S.W.3d 246	16
2009	Lawson v. Lawson†	290 S.W.3d 691	13
2009	Auto-Owners Insurance Co. v. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5906†	276 S.W.3d 298	12
2008	Baker v. Weinberg	266 S.W.3d 827	11
2009	Kessler v. Switzer†	289 S.W.3d 228	10
2009	Cabinet for Health & Family Services v. J.T.G.†	301 S.W.3d 35	7
2009	WILDCAT PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC v. Reuss†	302 S.W.3d 89	6
2009	Commonwealth v. Maynard†	294 S.W.3d 43	6
2007	Drake v. Commonwealth†	222 S.W.3d 254	6
2007	Oldham Farms Development, LLC v. Oldham County Planning & Zoning Commission†	233 S.W.3d 195	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 52 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 H. Lambert on?: James H. Lambert was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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3 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).