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 1969 / Served to 1974

James Park

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

James Park was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1969–1974 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Park authored 27 published opinions for the court (1969–1979). Most cited: Milby v. Mears (97 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. 6 of these were attributed to Park 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
1979	Milby v. Mears	580 S.W.2d 724	97
1979	Snawder v. Stice	576 S.W.2d 276	66
1978	Ford Motor Co. v. Mayes	575 S.W.2d 480	50
1978	Tube Turns Division of Chemetron Corp. v. Patterson Co.	562 S.W.2d 99	29
1977	Department for Human Resources v. Moore	552 S.W.2d 672	23
1978	Brown v. Commonwealth	564 S.W.2d 24	19
1978	Grimes v. Hettinger	566 S.W.2d 769	17
1977	Volvo of America Corp. v. Wells	551 S.W.2d 826	17
1978	Blanton v. Commonwealth	562 S.W.2d 90	15
1979	Borg-Warner Acceptance Corp. v. First National Bank of Prestonsburg	577 S.W.2d 29	12
1978	Ammons v. Winklepleck Ex Rel. Winklepleck	570 S.W.2d 287	12
1977	Kentland Elkhorn Coal Co. v. Johnson	549 S.W.2d 308	12
1979	Ohio River Pipeline Corp. v. Landrum	580 S.W.2d 713	10
1978	Jackson v. Cowden Manufacturing Co.	578 S.W.2d 259	10
1978	Adams v. Adams	565 S.W.2d 169	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 27 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 Park on?: James Park was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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5 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).