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 2010 / Served to 2012

Raymond Abramson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Raymond Abramson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2010–2012 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus
University of Arkansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Abramson authored 149 published opinions for the court (2010–2017), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Tiner v. Tiner (28 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. 37 of these were attributed to Abramson 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	Tiner v. Tiner· Dissent†	422 S.W.3d 178	28
2012	Spann v. Lovett & Co.†	389 S.W.3d 77	28
2017	Holland v. State	2017 Ark. App. 49	26
2017	Montez v. Montez	2017 Ark. App. 220	21
2012	Hill v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	389 S.W.3d 72	18
2015	XTO Energy, Inc. v. Thacker	2015 Ark. App. 203	16
2011	Kilman v. Kennard†	384 S.W.3d 647	13
2011	Holiday Inn Franchising, Inc. v. Hotel Associates, Inc.†	382 S.W.3d 6	13
2017	Gerber Products Co. v. CECO Concrete Construction, LLC	2017 Ark. App. 578	12
2011	Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co. v. Watkins†	386 S.W.3d 6	12
2010	Worrell v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	378 S.W.3d 258	11
2011	Stout v. Stout†	378 S.W.3d 844	10
2016	Shields v. Kimble	2016 Ark. App. 151	9
2012	Tankersley v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	389 S.W.3d 96	9
2017	Jones v. State	2017 Ark. App. 286	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 155 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 Raymond Abramson on?: Raymond Abramson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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2 years 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).