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 1952 / Served to 1954

Parker Duncan

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Parker Duncan was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1952. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1952–1954 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1952	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Duncan authored 166 published opinions for the court (1952–1954), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Schoo v. Rose (53 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. 111 of these were attributed to Duncan 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
1954	Schoo v. Rose	270 S.W.2d 940	53
1954	Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co. v. Commonwealth	266 S.W.2d 308	32
1954	Zeitz v. Foley	264 S.W.2d 267	29
1953	Hines v. Westerfield	254 S.W.2d 728	29
1953	Wolford v. Scott Nickels Bus Co.	257 S.W.2d 594	28
1952	Gibson v. Sellars	252 S.W.2d 911	28
1953	Williams v. West	258 S.W.2d 468	23
1954	Bagby v. Stewart's Ex'r	265 S.W.2d 75	21
1953	McFarland v. Hanley	258 S.W.2d 3	20
1953	Hendrickson v. Commonwealth	259 S.W.2d 1	19
1953	Johnson v. Ducobu	258 S.W.2d 509	19
1952	Jordon v. Nickell	253 S.W.2d 237	19
1953	McCaw v. Harrison	259 S.W.2d 457	18
1952	Shamburger v. Duncan	253 S.W.2d 388	17
1952	Commonwealth v. Gilbert	253 S.W.2d 264	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 168 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 was Parker Duncan on?: Parker Duncan was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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2 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).