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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas / Joined 2000 / Served to 2001

K Max Koonce II

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

K Max Koonce II was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2000–2001 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Education

Harding University
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Judicial Record

In our data, Koonce authored 7 published opinions for the court (2000), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Oliver v. Oliver (16 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. 4 of these were attributed to Koonce 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
2000	Oliver v. Oliver	19 S.W.3d 630	16
2000	Embry v. State†	70 Ark. App. 122	12
2000	Crismon v. Crismon	34 S.W.3d 763	10
2000	Donovan v. State	32 S.W.3d 1	10
2000	Carpenter v. Miller	26 S.W.3d 135	7
2000	Acord v. Acord· Dissent†	70 Ark. App. 409	5
2000	Steveson v. Frolic Footwear†	70 Ark. App. 383	3
2000	Vanesch v. State†	70 Ark. App. 277	2

Showing the 8 most-cited of 8 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 Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was K Max Koonce II on?: K Max Koonce II was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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