How do judges of the Supreme Court of Arkansas reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 2005 / Served to 2012

Jim Gunter

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Jim Gunter was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 2005–2012 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Gunter authored 202 published opinions for the court (2005–2012), plus 12 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: K.C. Properties of N.W. Arkansas, Inc. v. Lowell Investment Partners, LLC (75 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. 86 of these were attributed to Gunter 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
2008	K.C. Properties of N.W. Arkansas, Inc. v. Lowell Investment Partners, LLC†	373 Ark. 14	75
2006	Green v. State· Dissent†	231 S.W.3d 638	71
2012	Hobbs v. Jones†	412 S.W.3d 844	61
2005	Stewart Title Guaranty Co. v. American Abstract & Title Co.	215 S.W.3d 596	58
2005	Lewis v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	217 S.W.3d 788	56
2011	Sweet v. State†	370 S.W.3d 510	49
2007	Potter v. City of Tontitown	264 S.W.3d 473	49
2006	Harris v. City of Fort Smith	234 S.W.3d 875	47
2007	Thomas v. State	257 S.W.3d 92	44
2007	Pulaski County v. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc.	264 S.W.3d 465	39
2007	State v. Barrett	263 S.W.3d 542	39
2005	Jordan v. Diamond Equipment & Supply Co.	207 S.W.3d 525	37
2006	Vidos v. State	239 S.W.3d 467	36
2007	McCoy v. Montgomery	259 S.W.3d 430	35
2006	White v. State	242 S.W.3d 240	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 223 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 Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Jim Gunter on?: Jim Gunter was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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