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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Kentucky Court of Appeals / Joined 2007 / Active

Joy Moore

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Joy Moore is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Morehead State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Moore authored 89 published opinions for the court (2007–2014), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Kindred Nursing Centers Ltd. Partnership v. Sloan (47 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. 83 of these were attributed to Moore 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	Kindred Nursing Centers Ltd. Partnership v. Sloan†	329 S.W.3d 347	47
2007	Meyers v. Petrie†	233 S.W.3d 212	37
2010	Bear, Inc. v. Smith†	303 S.W.3d 137	33
2012	Sparks v. Trustguard Insurance Co.†	389 S.W.3d 121	28
2011	PCR Contractors, Inc. v. Danial†	354 S.W.3d 610	23
2009	Peters v. Wooten†	297 S.W.3d 55	21
2007	Miller v. McGinity†	234 S.W.3d 371	21
2010	Ladd v. Ladd	323 S.W.3d 772	17
2009	Wa v. Cabinet for Health & Family Serv. Commonwealth†	275 S.W.3d 214	16
2013	Cary v. Pulaski County Fiscal Court†	420 S.W.3d 500	15
2012	Littleton v. Plybon†	395 S.W.3d 505	15
2011	Waldridge v. Homeservices of Kentucky, Inc.· Dissent†	384 S.W.3d 165	13
2007	Gersh v. Bowman†	239 S.W.3d 567	13
2007	Block v. Block†	252 S.W.3d 156	13
2010	Fraley v. Rice-Fraley†	313 S.W.3d 635	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 93 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 is Joy Moore on?: Joy Moore is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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19 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).