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 1989 / Served to 1993

Janet Stumbo

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Janet Stumbo was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–1993 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Morehead State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Stumbo authored 46 published opinions for the court (1990–2008), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Overnite Transportation Co. v. Gaddis (42 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. 36 of these were attributed to Stumbo 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
1990	Overnite Transportation Co. v. Gaddis	793 S.W.2d 129	42
1992	Estep v. B.F. Saul Real Estate Investment Trust	843 S.W.2d 911	29
2008	Greene v. Commonwealth	244 S.W.3d 128	23
1990	Hollingsworth v. Hollingsworth†	798 S.W.2d 145	22
1993	Clark v. Commonwealth†	868 S.W.2d 101	21
2007	De Jong v. Leitchfield Deposit Bank	254 S.W.3d 817	20
2007	R v. v. Commonwealth, Department for Health & Family Services	242 S.W.3d 669	19
1990	Pierce v. Serafin	787 S.W.2d 705	18
2007	U.S. Bank, NA v. Hasty	232 S.W.3d 536	16
1993	Seigle v. Jasper	867 S.W.2d 476	15
1993	Trimble Fiscal Court v. Snyder†	866 S.W.2d 124	14
1993	W.L. Harper Construction Co. v. Baker†	858 S.W.2d 202	14
1992	Underwood v. Underwood· Concurrence†	836 S.W.2d 439	14
1990	Ireland v. Raymond†	796 S.W.2d 870	9
1993	Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance Co. v. Gearhart†	853 S.W.2d 907	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 48 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 Janet Stumbo on?: Janet Stumbo was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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4 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).