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 2001 / Served to 2010

Karen Baker

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Karen Baker was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2010 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Education

Arkansas Tech University
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Judicial Record

In our data, Baker authored 185 published opinions for the court (2001–2010), plus 54 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: McFarland v. Arkansas Department of Human Services (60 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. 121 of these were attributed to Baker 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	McFarland v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	210 S.W.3d 143	60
2002	Poulan Weed Eater v. Marshall	84 S.W.3d 878	58
2007	Sharp v. Keeler· Dissent†	256 S.W.3d 528	54
2003	Carver v. May	101 S.W.3d 256	44
2004	Carroll v. Arkansas Department of Human Services· Dissent†	148 S.W.3d 780	40
2010	Dozier v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	372 S.W.3d 849	36
2002	Johnson v. Arkansas Department of Human Services· Dissent†	82 S.W.3d 183	33
2001	Emerson Elec. v. Gaston	58 S.W.3d 848	25
2002	Abshure v. State· Dissent†	87 S.W.3d 822	24
2007	Osborne v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	252 S.W.3d 138	23
2003	Searcy Industrial Laundry, Inc. v. Ferren	110 S.W.3d 306	23
2008	Kelley v. State	286 S.W.3d 746	22
2007	Hamilton v. Allen· Dissent†	267 S.W.3d 627	21
2008	Fields v. Arkansas Department of Human Services· Dissent†	289 S.W.3d 134	20
2009	Evtimov v. Milanova	300 S.W.3d 110	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 251 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 Karen Baker on?: Karen Baker was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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9 years 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).