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 2003 / Served to 2011

Jeff S. Taylor

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Jeff S. Taylor was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2003–2011 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Murray State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Taylor authored 63 published opinions for the court (2004–2026), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Mims v. Western-Southern Agency, Inc. (55 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. 43 of these were attributed to Taylor 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
2007	Mims v. Western-Southern Agency, Inc.	226 S.W.3d 833	55
2007	Finley v. DBM TECHNOLOGIES†	217 S.W.3d 261	45
2005	Harrodsburg Industrial Warehousing, Inc. v. Migs, LLC†	182 S.W.3d 529	24
2005	Schwartz v. Hasty	175 S.W.3d 621	19
2010	Deskins v. Estep†	314 S.W.3d 300	18
2006	Slone v. Casey†	194 S.W.3d 336	17
2006	Garcia v. Commonwealth†	185 S.W.3d 658	15
2007	Spencer County Preservation, Inc. v. Beacon Hill, LLC†	214 S.W.3d 327	14
2004	Brown v. Shelton†	156 S.W.3d 319	14
2004	City of Worthington Hills v. Worthington Fire Protection District†	140 S.W.3d 584	14
2004	Stivers v. Ellington	140 S.W.3d 599	13
2011	Smith v. Martin†	331 S.W.3d 637	11
2008	Jones v. Jones†	245 S.W.3d 815	11
2005	Hornback v. Bankers Life Insurance Co.	176 S.W.3d 699	11
2009	R.M. v. R.B.†	281 S.W.3d 293	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 66 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 Jeff S. Taylor on?: Jeff S. Taylor was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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8 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).