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 2006

John D. Minton Jr.

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

John D. Minton Jr. was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2003–2006 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Western Kentucky University

Judicial Record

In our data, Minton authored 55 published opinions for the court (2004–2006). Most cited: Smith v. Smith (94 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. 41 of these were attributed to Minton 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
2006	Smith v. Smith†	235 S.W.3d 1	94
2004	Rigdon v. Commonwealth†	144 S.W.3d 283	65
2005	Doe v. Golden & Walters, PLLC†	173 S.W.3d 260	47
2006	Hugenberg v. West American Insurance Co./Ohio Casualty Group†	249 S.W.3d 174	42
2004	Wilfong v. Commonwealth	175 S.W.3d 84	42
2004	Davidson v. Commonwealth, Department of Military Affairs†	152 S.W.3d 247	42
2006	Jones v. Brasch-Barry General Contractors†	189 S.W.3d 149	30
2004	Medley v. BOARD OF EDUC., OF SHELBY COUNTY†	168 S.W.3d 398	29
2004	Kinney v. Butcher†	131 S.W.3d 357	29
2005	Baker v. Campbell County Board of Education†	180 S.W.3d 479	22
2006	Combs v. Albert Kahn & Associates, Inc.†	183 S.W.3d 190	21
2005	S.R.D. v. T.L.B.†	174 S.W.3d 502	21
2004	Commonwealth v. Bustamonte	140 S.W.3d 581	19
2005	Flag Drilling Co., Inc. v. Erco, Inc.†	156 S.W.3d 762	17
2005	Smith v. Hodges	199 S.W.3d 185	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 55 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 John D. Minton Jr. on?: John D. Minton Jr. was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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3 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).