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 2014 / Active

Lisabeth Hughes Abramson

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Lisabeth Hughes Abramson is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, serving since 2014. She previously served on the Supreme Court of Kentucky. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Supreme Court of Kentucky	–	–
2014	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Louisville

Judicial Record

In our data, Abramson authored 133 published opinions for the court (1997–2015), plus 13 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: Brown v. Commonwealth (259 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. 164 of these were attributed to Abramson 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
2010	Brown v. Commonwealth†	313 S.W.3d 577	259
2010	Fox v. Grayson· Concurrence†	317 S.W.3d 1	225
2009	Winstead v. Commonwealth†	283 S.W.3d 678	210
2012	Ping v. Beverly Enterprises, Inc.†	376 S.W.3d 581	153
2014	Morgan v. Getter†	441 S.W.3d 94	147
2011	Shawnee Telecom Resources, Inc. v. Brown†	354 S.W.3d 542	144
2015	Sargent v. Shaffer· Concurrence†	467 S.W.3d 198	142
2009	Breathitt County Board of Education v. Prater†	292 S.W.3d 883	137
2014	Commonwealth v. Andrews†	448 S.W.3d 773	117
2011	Giddings & Lewis, Inc. v. Industrial Risk Insurers†	348 S.W.3d 729	114
2010	Blankenship v. Collier†	302 S.W.3d 665	107
2011	Quisenberry v. Commonwealth†	336 S.W.3d 19	101
2009	Rodgers v. Commonwealth†	285 S.W.3d 740	99
2009	Flegles, Inc. v. Truserv Corp.†	289 S.W.3d 544	97
2009	Commonwealth v. Jones†	283 S.W.3d 665	97

Showing the 15 most-cited of 172 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 Lisabeth Hughes Abramson on?: Lisabeth Hughes Abramson is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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12 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).