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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Tennessee / Joined 1990 / Served to 1998

Lyle Reid

Justice, Supreme Court of Tennessee

Lyle Reid was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1930 · age 96
Tenure: 1990–1998 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Supreme Court of Tennessee	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Reid authored 167 published opinions for the court (1990–2000), plus 16 dissents and 33 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Ashby (3,586 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. 94 of these were attributed to Reid 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
1991	State v. Ashby	823 S.W.2d 166	3,586
1997	State v. Bland· Concurrence†	958 S.W.2d 651	3,458
1997	Henley v. State· Dissent†	960 S.W.2d 572	2,590
1992	State v. Harris· Dissent†	839 S.W.2d 54	1,328
1995	State v. Wilkerson	905 S.W.2d 933	1,019
1994	State v. Cazes· Concurrence†	875 S.W.2d 253	901
1997	State v. Yeargan· Concurrence†	958 S.W.2d 626	776
1994	State v. Bigbee· Concurrence†	885 S.W.2d 797	691
1997	State v. DuBose	953 S.W.2d 649	689
1994	State v. Stephenson· Concurrence†	878 S.W.2d 530	598
1993	State v. Howell· Concurrence†	868 S.W.2d 238	552
1994	State v. Jones	883 S.W.2d 597	540
1992	State v. Middlebrooks· Concurrence†	840 S.W.2d 317	519
1993	State v. Smith· Concurrence†	868 S.W.2d 561	479
1991	State v. Black· Concurrence†	815 S.W.2d 166	445

Showing the 15 most-cited of 216 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 Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Lyle Reid on?: Lyle Reid was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Sources

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