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 2004 / Active

Laurance Vanmeter

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Laurance Vanmeter is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, serving since 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Vanmeter authored 178 published opinions for the court (2004–2017), plus 6 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Hadley v. Citizen Deposit Bank (72 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. 175 of these were attributed to Vanmeter 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	Hadley v. Citizen Deposit Bank	186 S.W.3d 754	72
2007	Kenney v. Hanger Prosthetics & Orthotics, Inc.†	269 S.W.3d 866	31
2006	Dunn v. Commonwealth†	199 S.W.3d 775	21
2007	Miracle v. Bell County Emergency Medical Services†	237 S.W.3d 555	20
2013	Transit Authority of River City v. Bibelhauser†	432 S.W.3d 171	18
2013	University of Louisville v. Sharp†	416 S.W.3d 313	17
2015	J.S. v. Berla†	456 S.W.3d 19	16
2010	Mountain Water District v. Smith†	314 S.W.3d 312	16
2015	Cromity v. Meiners†	494 S.W.3d 499	15
2011	Hoskins v. Beatty†	343 S.W.3d 639	15
2006	Gilliam v. Pikeville United Methodist Hospital of Kentucky, Inc.†	215 S.W.3d 56	15
2004	Sallee v. Sallee†	142 S.W.3d 697	15
2013	Estate of Moloney v. Becker†	398 S.W.3d 459	14
2005	Shrout v. the TFE Group†	161 S.W.3d 351	14
2014	Moss v. Kentucky State University†	465 S.W.3d 457	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 186 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 Laurance Vanmeter on?: Laurance Vanmeter is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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22 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).