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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 2007 / Former Justice

Paul E. Danielson

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Paul E. Danielson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Danielson authored 202 published opinions for the court (2007–2016), plus 58 dissents and 45 concurrences. Most cited: Henington v. State (127 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. 164 of these were attributed to Danielson 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
2012	Henington v. State· Concurrence†	403 S.W.3d 55	127
2007	Baker v. Norris	255 S.W.3d 466	92
2015	Philyaw v. Kelley	2015 Ark. 465	84
2011	Campbell v. Asbury Automotive, Inc.†	381 S.W.3d 21	79
2014	Prock v. Bull Shoals Boat Landing	2014 Ark. 93	72
2007	Cochran v. Bentley	251 S.W.3d 253	63
2014	Nelson v. State	2014 Ark. 91	62
2009	Morgan v. State	308 S.W.3d 147	56
2012	Chunestudy v. State†	408 S.W.3d 55	55
2012	Laswell v. State†	404 S.W.3d 818	52
2014	Asset Acceptance, LLC v. Newby· Dissent†	2014 Ark. 280	47
2016	Covenant Presbytery v. First Baptist Church· Dissent†	2016 Ark. 138	43
2012	Bedell v. Williams†	386 S.W.3d 493	43
2013	McNutt v. Yates	2013 Ark. 427	42
2011	Jackson v. Norris· Dissent†	378 S.W.3d 103	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 305 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 Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Paul E. Danielson on?: Paul E. Danielson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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