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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Kentucky Court of Appeals / Joined 2007 / Active

Michael Caperton

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Michael Caperton is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Transylvania University

Judicial Record

In our data, Caperton authored 43 published opinions for the court (2008–2014), plus 6 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Stoker v. Commonwealth (44 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. 52 of these were attributed to Caperton 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	Stoker v. Commonwealth†	289 S.W.3d 592	44
2009	Young v. Holmes†	295 S.W.3d 144	25
2009	Combs v. Stortz†	276 S.W.3d 282	18
2008	McBrearty v. KENTUCKY COMMU. TECH. COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM†	262 S.W.3d 205	18
2010	Humphrey v. Humphrey†	326 S.W.3d 460	15
2011	Abdur-Rahman v. Peterson†	338 S.W.3d 823	13
2011	Weinberg v. GHARAI†	338 S.W.3d 307	13
2013	Tudor v. Tudor†	399 S.W.3d 791	12
2011	Kindred Nursing Centers Ltd. Partnership v. Brown†	411 S.W.3d 242	12
2009	Hill v. Thompson†	297 S.W.3d 892	12
2009	Colorama, Inc. v. Johnson†	295 S.W.3d 148	12
2012	Guenther v. Guenther†	379 S.W.3d 796	11
2009	Kessler v. Switzer· Dissent†	289 S.W.3d 228	10
2009	Kegel v. Tillotson†	297 S.W.3d 908	8
2011	Rehm v. Ford Motor Co.· Concurrence†	365 S.W.3d 570	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 53 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 Kentucky Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Michael Caperton on?: Michael Caperton is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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