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 1951 / Served to 1968

Paul Ward

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Paul Ward was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1890 · age 136
Tenure: 1951–1968 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ward authored 706 published opinions for the court (1951–1968), plus 101 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Fullenwider v. Kitchens (66 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. 646 of these were attributed to Ward 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	Fullenwider v. Kitchens	266 S.W.2d 281	66
1959	Andres v. First Ark. Development Finance Corp.· Concurrence†	324 S.W.2d 97	58
1954	Arkansas Bar Association v. Union National Bank	273 S.W.2d 408	58
1960	Wayland v. Snapp	334 S.W.2d 633	56
1960	Hilger v. Harding College	331 S.W.2d 851	53
1958	Ark. State Highway Comm. v. Mabry· Dissent†	315 S.W.2d 900	52
1955	Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. v. White River Distributors, Inc.	275 S.W.2d 455	51
1960	Erhart v. Hummonds· Dissent†	334 S.W.2d 869	47
1959	Clubb v. State	326 S.W.2d 816	44
1960	Dunaway v. Troutt· Concurrence†	339 S.W.2d 613	40
1952	Winston v. Personal Finance Co. of Pine Bluff, Inc.· Concurrence†	249 S.W.2d 315	39
1958	Ark. State Highway Comm. v. Watkins	313 S.W.2d 86	38
1960	Ark. State Highway Comm. v. Bingham	333 S.W.2d 728	36
1957	Craig v. O'BRYAN· Dissent†	301 S.W.2d 18	36
1958	Wilson v. Wilson· Dissent†	310 S.W.2d 500	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 830 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 Ward on?: Paul Ward was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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17 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).