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 2013

Larry D. Vaught

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

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

Tenure: 2001–2013 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Washington University in St Louis
University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Vaught authored 466 published opinions for the court (2001–2017), plus 21 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Lee v. Arkansas Department of Human Services (86 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. 150 of these were attributed to Vaught 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
2008	Lee v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	285 S.W.3d 277	86
2015	Lively v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2015 Ark. App. 131	61
2017	T.S. v. State	2017 Ark. App. 578	40
2013	Rose v. Rose†	427 S.W.3d 698	36
2003	Cole v. Cole	110 S.W.3d 310	35
2008	Applegate v. Applegate	275 S.W.3d 682	33
2005	Cole v. Cole	201 S.W.3d 21	32
2015	Geren Williams v. Geren	2015 Ark. App. 197	31
2006	Moiser v. Arkansas Department of Health & Human Services	233 S.W.3d 172	30
2004	Smith v. City of Fort Smith	143 S.W.3d 593	30
2001	Matlock v. Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield· Dissent†	49 S.W.3d 126	30
2012	Watkins v. Arkansas Elder Outreach of Little Rock, Inc.†	420 S.W.3d 477	28
2003	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Brown	120 S.W.3d 153	28
2004	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Kilgore	148 S.W.3d 754	26
2010	K.C. v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	374 S.W.3d 884	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 500 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 Larry D. Vaught on?: Larry D. Vaught was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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12 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).