How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee / Joined 2009 / Active

John Westley McClarty

Judge, Court of Appeals of Tennessee

John Westley McClarty is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Court of Appeals of Tennessee	–	–

Education

Austin Peay State University

Judicial Record

In our data, McClarty authored 733 published opinions for the court (2009–2026), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Lane v. Becker (56 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. 1 of these was attributed to McClarty 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
2010	Lane v. Becker	334 S.W.3d 756	56
2013	John Riad v. Erie Insurance Exchange	436 S.W.3d 256	37
2010	Chris Yousif, d/b/a Quality Motors v. Notrial Clark and The Circuit Court of Knox County· Dissent†	317 S.W.3d 240	9
2014	Susan Sirbaugh v. Vanderbilt University, d/b/a Vanderbilt University Medical Center	469 S.W.3d 46	8
2015	Royal Properties, Inc. v. The City of Knoxville	490 S.W.3d 1	5
2018	Johnson & Associates, LLC v. The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc.	572 S.W.3d 636	4
2018	Destine Johnson v. General Motors Corporation	574 S.W.3d 347	3
2012	In Re ESTATE OF Omer STIDHAM	438 S.W.3d 535	3
2013	State of Tennessee ex rel Paul Allen v. The City of Newport	422 S.W.3d 567	1
2026	IN RE OLIVIA S.	–	0
2026	In Re Ellie C.	–	0
2026	ROSE CHRISTIAN V. JEFFERSON CITY	–	0
2026	Samuel Forrester Hunter v. Winnie Sue Cooper	–	0
2026	Hill Boren Properties v. Ricky Lee Boren	–	0
2026	KATHY DIANE BARKER COMPTON v. MICHAEL COMPTON	–	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 734 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 Court of Appeals of Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is John Westley McClarty on?: John Westley McClarty is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee.

Sources

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