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 1967 / Served to 1975

Lyle Brown

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Lyle Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1908 · age 118
Tenure: 1967–1975 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Education

Southern Methodist University

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 431 published opinions for the court (1967–1975), plus 5 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Troglin v. State (53 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. 349 of these were attributed to Brown 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
1975	Troglin v. State	519 S.W.2d 740	53
1968	Harris v. State	425 S.W.2d 293	50
1969	Nelson v. Busby	437 S.W.2d 799	39
1969	Cook v. Bevill	440 S.W.2d 570	38
1969	Williams v. Jefferson Hospital Ass'n	442 S.W.2d 243	36
1967	Walden v. Hart	420 S.W.2d 868	33
1970	Miller v. State	457 S.W.2d 848	28
1972	Davis v. Kemp	481 S.W.2d 712	27
1970	Dessert Seed Co. v. Drew Farmers Supply, Inc.	454 S.W.2d 307	27
1968	Satterfield v. State	432 S.W.2d 472	26
1969	Arkansas State Highway Comm'n v. Darr	437 S.W.2d 463	25
1967	St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Clemons	415 S.W.2d 332	25
1967	Justice v. Campbell†	241 Ark. 802	25
1969	Paul Hardeman, Inc. v. JI Hass Company	439 S.W.2d 281	24
1968	Fanning v. Hembree Oil Company	434 S.W.2d 822	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 443 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 Lyle Brown on?: Lyle Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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7 years 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).