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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas / Joined 1979 / Served to 1980

Marian Fox Penix

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Marian Fox Penix was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–1991
Tenure: 1979–1980 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Penix authored 76 published opinions for the court (1979–1980), plus 28 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Caldwell v. State (29 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. 98 of these were attributed to Penix 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
1980	Caldwell v. State	594 S.W.2d 24	29
1979	M. M. Cohn Co. v. Haile· Dissent†	589 S.W.2d 600	28
1980	Mathis v. State	591 S.W.2d 679	19
1979	Cates v. State	589 S.W.2d 598	18
1980	Phipps v. Storey	601 S.W.2d 249	17
1980	Yeargan v. Bank of Montgomery County	595 S.W.2d 704	17
1979	Perkins v. Perkins· Dissent†	589 S.W.2d 588	16
1980	Rebsamen Ins. v. Milton	600 S.W.2d 441	15
1980	Blount v. McCurdy	593 S.W.2d 468	14
1980	Woods v. Employment Security Division†	269 Ark. 613	11
1980	Counce v. MBM Company, Inc.· Dissent†	597 S.W.2d 92	11
1979	Boensch v. Cornett†	267 Ark. 671	11
1979	Milne v. Milne· Dissent†	587 S.W.2d 229	11
1980	Jackson v. Petit Jean Electric Co-op†	268 Ark. 1076	10
1980	Philmon v. State· Dissent†	267 Ark. 1121	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 105 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 Court of Appeals of Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Marian Fox Penix on?: Marian Fox Penix was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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