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Supreme Court of Kentucky / Joined 2005 / Served to 2006

John C. Roach

Justice, Supreme Court of Kentucky

John C. Roach was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1967 · age 59
Tenure: 2005–2006 · 1 yr

Judicial service

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

Education

Washington and Lee University
University of Kentucky

Judicial Record

In our data, Roach authored 23 published opinions for the court (2005–2007), plus 21 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Lewis v. Jackson Energy Cooperative Corp. (96 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. 40 of these were attributed to Roach 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
2005	Lewis v. Jackson Energy Cooperative Corp.· Dissent†	189 S.W.3d 87	96
2005	Williams v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.†	184 S.W.3d 492	77
2006	Knotts v. Zurich Insurance Co.	197 S.W.3d 512	75
2005	Dickerson v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	174 S.W.3d 451	72
2006	Matheney v. Commonwealth†	191 S.W.3d 599	67
2006	Stephenson v. Woodward· Dissent†	182 S.W.3d 162	66
2005	Independent Order of Foresters v. Chauvin†	175 S.W.3d 610	64
2005	Patterson v. Blair†	172 S.W.3d 361	63
2006	Ragland v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	191 S.W.3d 569	57
2005	Hayes v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	175 S.W.3d 574	54
2005	Davenport v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	177 S.W.3d 763	53
2006	T & M JEWELRY, INC. v. Hicks Ex Rel. Hicks· Concurrence†	189 S.W.3d 526	47
2006	Major v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	177 S.W.3d 700	46
2006	White v. Commonwealth	178 S.W.3d 470	36
2006	Morgan v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	189 S.W.3d 99	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 53 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 Kentucky reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was John C. Roach on?: John C. Roach was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Sources

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