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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1967 / Served to 1980

John Albert Fogleman

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

John Albert Fogleman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1911–2004
Tenure: 1967–1980 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Arkansas
University of Memphis

Judicial Record

In our data, Fogleman authored 727 published opinions for the court (1967–1980), plus 264 dissents and 173 concurrences. Most cited: Chaney v. Bryant (450 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. 747 of these were attributed to Fogleman 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
1976	Chaney v. Bryant	532 S.W.2d 741	450
1977	Dixon v. State· Dissent†	545 S.W.2d 606	196
1980	MBM Co., Inc. v. Counce†	596 S.W.2d 681	180
1977	Collins v. State	548 S.W.2d 106	143
1968	Parish v. Pitts· Dissent†	429 S.W.2d 45	139
1979	Clark v. Peabody Testing Service	579 S.W.2d 360	131
1979	Ferguson v. Green	587 S.W.2d 18	114
1979	Pender v. McKee	582 S.W.2d 929	108
1980	Beed v. State	609 S.W.2d 898	107
1977	Giles v. State	549 S.W.2d 479	105
1972	Ray Dodge, Inc. v. Moore	479 S.W.2d 518	95
1969	Mason v. Funderburk	446 S.W.2d 543	91
1980	Miller v. State· Dissent†	605 S.W.2d 430	89
1978	Gardner v. State	569 S.W.2d 74	85
1980	Larson MacHine, Inc. v. Wallace	600 S.W.2d 1	82

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,167 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 John Albert Fogleman on?: John Albert Fogleman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

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13 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).