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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee / Joined 1990 / Served to 2014

Joseph Tipton

Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee

Joseph Tipton was a Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1990–2014 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Tipton authored 1,167 published opinions for the court (1990–2014), plus 2 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Fletcher (1,217 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. 49 of these were attributed to Tipton 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
1991	State v. Fletcher	805 S.W.2d 785	1,217
1992	Cooper v. State	847 S.W.2d 521	1,162
1992	State v. Shelton	854 S.W.2d 116	439
1991	State v. Hartley	818 S.W.2d 370	259
1993	State v. Burlison	868 S.W.2d 713	226
1995	State v. Hayes	899 S.W.2d 175	186
1992	State v. Anderson	857 S.W.2d 571	181
1993	State v. Marshall	870 S.W.2d 532	179
1996	State v. Alvarado· Concurrence†	961 S.W.2d 136	167
1997	State v. Stubblefield	953 S.W.2d 223	165
1991	State v. Moore	814 S.W.2d 381	155
1991	State v. Brown	823 S.W.2d 576	144
1997	State v. Addison	973 S.W.2d 260	138
1993	State v. Shropshire	874 S.W.2d 634	129
1997	State v. Schaller	975 S.W.2d 313	128

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,180 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 Criminal Appeals of Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Joseph Tipton on?: Joseph Tipton was a Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee.

Sources

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