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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Kentucky / Joined 1995 / Served to 1996

Nicholas King

Justice, Supreme Court of Kentucky

Nicholas King was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1945–2010
Tenure: 1995–1996 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Supreme Court of Kentucky	–	–

Education

Florida State University
University of Louisville

Judicial Record

In our data, King authored 6 published opinions for the court (1995–2003), plus 5 dissents. Most cited: Pathways, Inc. v. Hammons (200 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. 5 of these were attributed to King 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
2003	Pathways, Inc. v. Hammons	113 S.W.3d 85	200
1996	Kroger Co. v. Willgruber	920 S.W.2d 61	94
1996	Gould v. Charlton Co., Inc.	929 S.W.2d 734	76
1996	Wine v. Globe American Casualty Co.	917 S.W.2d 558	55
1996	Thomas v. Commonwealth	931 S.W.2d 446	47
1996	Lewis Ex Rel. Lewis v. West American Insurance Co.	927 S.W.2d 829	30
1996	Clark v. Burden· Dissent†	917 S.W.2d 574	20
1996	Commonwealth, Transportation Cabinet, Bureau of Highways v. Roof· Dissent†	913 S.W.2d 322	18
1996	Whittington v. Cunnagin· Dissent†	925 S.W.2d 455	4
1996	Board of Education v. Williams· Dissent†	930 S.W.2d 399	2
1995	Miller v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	925 S.W.2d 447	0

Showing the 11 most-cited of 11 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 Nicholas King on?: Nicholas King was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky.

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1 year 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).