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Supreme Court of Kentucky / Joined 2007 / Former Justice

Mary C. Noble

Justice, Supreme Court of Kentucky

Mary C. Noble was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Austin Peay State University
University of Kentucky

Judicial Record

In our data, Noble authored 185 published opinions for the court (2007–2016), plus 23 dissents and 34 concurrences. Most cited: Leonard v. Commonwealth (168 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. 242 of these were attributed to Noble 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
2009	Leonard v. Commonwealth†	279 S.W.3d 151	168
2007	Shane v. Commonwealth†	243 S.W.3d 336	120
2011	Anderson v. Johnson†	350 S.W.3d 453	108
2009	Cardine v. Commonwealth†	283 S.W.3d 641	105
2010	Padgett v. Commonwealth†	312 S.W.3d 336	104
2008	Pennington v. Marcum†	266 S.W.3d 759	101
2009	Rodgers v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	285 S.W.3d 740	99
2014	Marson v. Thomason†	438 S.W.3d 292	94
2012	Elery v. Commonwealth†	368 S.W.3d 78	92
2016	Commonwealth v. McGorman· Concurrence†	489 S.W.3d 731	86
2010	Wilburn v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	312 S.W.3d 321	86
2014	Mark D. Dean, P.S.C. v. Commonwealth Bank & Trust Co.†	434 S.W.3d 489	84
2011	Fischer v. Fischer†	348 S.W.3d 582	82
2008	Frances v. Frances†	266 S.W.3d 754	81
2015	Hall v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	468 S.W.3d 814	80

Showing the 15 most-cited of 242 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 Kentucky reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Mary C. Noble on?: Mary C. Noble was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Sources

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