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 2009 / Served to 2010

Michael Kinard

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Michael Kinard was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2009–2010 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Education

Missouri Southern State University
University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Kinard authored 105 published opinions for the court (2009–2016), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Chaffin v. Arkansas Department of Human Services (43 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. 31 of these were attributed to Kinard 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
2015	Chaffin v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2015 Ark. App. 522	43
2009	Friend v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	344 S.W.3d 670	37
2015	Orintas v. Point Lookout Property Owners Ass'n Board of Directors	2015 Ark. App. 648	18
2010	Page v. Page†	373 S.W.3d 408	18
2009	Ingram v. State†	363 S.W.3d 6	18
2010	Tri-Eagle Enterprises v. Regions Bank†	373 S.W.3d 399	16
2009	Cora v. State	319 S.W.3d 281	16
2009	Whitworth v. Whitworth	319 S.W.3d 269	15
2010	Reed v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	375 S.W.3d 709	14
2016	Ferguson v. State	2016 Ark. App. 4	12
2010	Deltic Timber Corp. v. Newland†	374 S.W.3d 261	12
2015	Fletcher v. Stewart	2015 Ark. App. 105	11
2010	Foster v. Foster†	377 S.W.3d 497	11
2010	Davis v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	375 S.W.3d 721	11
2009	Watkins v. State†	302 S.W.3d 635	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 110 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 Michael Kinard on?: Michael Kinard 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).