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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1955 / Served to 1956

Lee Seamster

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Lee Seamster was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1888 · age 138
Tenure: 1955–1956 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Seamster authored 52 published opinions for the court (1955–1956). Most cited: Collins v. Heitman (33 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. 37 of these were attributed to Seamster 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
1955	Collins v. Heitman	284 S.W.2d 628	33
1956	Crowly v. Thornbrough	294 S.W.2d 62	21
1956	Haynes v. Riales†	226 Ark. 370	21
1956	Oliver v. State	286 S.W.2d 17	21
1955	Woolfolk v. Davis	285 S.W.2d 321	21
1956	Strawn v. Campbell	291 S.W.2d 508	16
1956	Pasteur v. Niswanger	290 S.W.2d 852	12
1956	Rogers v. Lawrence	296 S.W.2d 899	11
1956	Commissioner of Labor, C. R. Thornbrough v. Danco Construction Co.†	226 Ark. 797	11
1956	Pfeifers of Arkansas v. Rorex†	225 Ark. 840	11
1956	Coulter v. O'KELLY	295 S.W.2d 753	10
1955	Johnston v. Johnston	283 S.W.2d 151	9
1956	Padgett v. Arkansas Power & Light Co.†	226 Ark. 409	8
1956	Harrison v. Terry Dairy Products, Inc.†	225 Ark. 953	7
1955	Hall v. Milham	284 S.W.2d 108	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 52 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 Supreme Court of Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Lee Seamster on?: Lee Seamster was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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