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 2013 / Active

Kenneth Hixson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Kenneth Hixson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Central Arkansas
University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Hixson authored 310 published opinions for the court (2013–2019), plus 19 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Mitchell v. Arkansas Department of Human Services (52 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. 126 of these were attributed to Hixson 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
2013	Mitchell v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2013 Ark. App. 715	52
2018	Kohlman v. Ark. Dep't of Human Servs. & Minor Children†	544 S.W.3d 595	41
2016	Shaffer v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2016 Ark. App. 208	30
2017	Willis v. Ark. Dep't of Human Servs.	2017 Ark. App. 559	28
2015	Lloyd v. Pier West Property Owners Ass'n	2015 Ark. App. 487	26
2016	Hoover v. Hoover†	2016 Ark. App. 322	24
2014	Ford v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2014 Ark. App. 226	24
2017	Bunch v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2017 Ark. App. 374	20
2019	Carter v. State†	568 S.W.3d 788	19
2017	Poland v. Poland	2017 Ark. App. 178	19
2015	Knuckles v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2015 Ark. App. 463	18
2015	Brumley v. Arkansas Department of Human Services· Concurrence†	2015 Ark. App. 90	18
2015	Z.T. v. State	2015 Ark. App. 282	17
2014	Bamburg v. Bamburg†	435 S.W.3d 6	16
2016	Kiser v. State	2016 Ark. App. 198	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 337 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 is Kenneth Hixson on?: Kenneth Hixson is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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13 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).