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 2001 / Served to 2015

Jimm Hannah

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Jimm Hannah was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Tenure: 2001–2015 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Education

Henderson State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hannah authored 383 published opinions for the court (2001–2015), plus 96 dissents and 74 concurrences. Most cited: McDonald v. State (210 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. 233 of these were attributed to Hannah 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
2004	McDonald v. State	146 S.W.3d 883	210
2009	Newman v. State	354 S.W.3d 61	185
2006	Howard v. State· Dissent†	238 S.W.3d 24	177
2003	Grillot v. State· Concurrence†	107 S.W.3d 136	164
2002	Lake View School District No. 25 v. Huckabee· Concurrence†	91 S.W.3d 472	132
2003	Davis v. State· Dissent†	94 S.W.3d 892	118
2002	Linder v. Linder· Concurrence†	72 S.W.3d 841	117
2003	Anderson v. State· Concurrence†	108 S.W.3d 592	111
2001	Dodson v. Allstate Insurance	47 S.W.3d 866	97
2001	Laime v. State· Dissent†	60 S.W.3d 464	96
2002	Williams v. State	67 S.W.3d 548	77
2011	Vance v. State· Concurrence†	383 S.W.3d 325	76
2005	MacSteel Division of Quanex v. Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corp.	210 S.W.3d 878	76
2008	K.C. Properties of N.W. Arkansas, Inc. v. Lowell Investment Partners, LLC· Concurrence†	373 Ark. 14	75
2003	Smith v. State	98 S.W.3d 433	75

Showing the 15 most-cited of 553 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 Jimm Hannah on?: Jimm Hannah was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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14 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).