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 1983 / Served to 1996

Melvin Mayfield

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Melvin Mayfield was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–1996 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mayfield authored 360 published opinions for the court (1981–1996), plus 137 dissents and 60 concurrences. Most cited: Wright v. ABC Air, Inc. (47 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. 480 of these were attributed to Mayfield 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
1993	Wright v. ABC Air, Inc.· Dissent†	864 S.W.2d 871	47
1981	Nibco, Inc. v. Metcalf	613 S.W.2d 612	39
1995	Bradley v. Alumax· Dissent†	899 S.W.2d 850	37
1990	Ryan v. State	786 S.W.2d 835	36
1988	Coffman v. State	759 S.W.2d 573	34
1988	Lofton v. Lofton	745 S.W.2d 635	34
1994	Tucker v. State	885 S.W.2d 904	33
1992	Welch's Laundry and Cleaners v. Clark	832 S.W.2d 283	31
1995	Jordan v. Tyson Foods, Inc.· Dissent†	911 S.W.2d 593	29
1984	Central Maloney, Inc. v. York· Concurrence†	663 S.W.2d 196	29
1991	Pizza Hut of America, Inc. v. West General Insurance	816 S.W.2d 638	28
1984	Guidry v. J & R Eads Construction Co.	669 S.W.2d 483	28
1990	Sunbelt Couriers v. McCartney· Concurrence†	31 Ark. App. 8	27
1996	Weldon v. Pierce Bros. Construction· Dissent†	925 S.W.2d 179	26
1996	Rucker v. Price· Dissent†	52 Ark. App. 126	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 559 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 Melvin Mayfield on?: Melvin Mayfield was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

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13 years 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).