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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Kentucky Court of Appeals / Joined 1991 / Served to 2003

Joseph R. Huddleston

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Joseph R. Huddleston was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1937–2011
Tenure: 1991–2003 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Princeton University

Judicial Record

In our data, Huddleston authored 183 published opinions for the court (1991–2007), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Lewis v. B & R CORPORATION (257 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. 108 of these were attributed to Huddleston 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
2001	Lewis v. B & R CORPORATION	56 S.W.3d 432	257
2002	Cantrell Supply, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.	94 S.W.3d 381	247
2002	James v. Wilson	95 S.W.3d 875	187
2001	Conseco Finance Servicing Corp. v. Wilder	47 S.W.3d 335	142
1998	Cinelli v. Ward	997 S.W.2d 474	126
1995	Bowling v. Natural Resources & Environmental Protection Cabinet	891 S.W.2d 406	80
2001	Downing v. Downing	45 S.W.3d 449	64
1999	Aubrey v. Office of the Attorney General	994 S.W.2d 516	60
2003	Baltimore v. Commonwealth†	119 S.W.3d 532	56
2003	Rockwell International Corp. v. Wilhite	143 S.W.3d 604	43
2000	Stewart v. Commonwealth	44 S.W.3d 376	42
1999	A & a Mechanical, Inc. v. Thermal Equipment Sales, Inc.	998 S.W.2d 505	42
1998	Smith v. General Motors Corp.	979 S.W.2d 127	38
1992	Huddleston by and Through Lynch v. Hughes	843 S.W.2d 901	36
1995	Broaddus v. Campbell	911 S.W.2d 281	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 186 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 Joseph R. Huddleston on?: Joseph R. Huddleston was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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12 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).