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 2015 / Active

Rhonda K. Wood

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Rhonda K. Wood is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, serving since 2015. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2015 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2015	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wood authored 82 published opinions for the court (2015–2019), plus 25 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: Moore v. Moore (45 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. 131 of these were attributed to Wood 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
2016	Moore v. Moore†	2016 Ark. 105	45
2016	Covenant Presbytery v. First Baptist Church†	2016 Ark. 138	43
2015	Philip Morris Cos. Inc. v. Miner†	2015 Ark. 73	35
2015	Lineham v. Hyde†	467 S.W.3d 129	34
2016	Strawhacker v. State†	2016 Ark. 348	33
2015	Feuget v. State†	2015 Ark. 43	33
2016	Mann v. Pierce· Concurrence†	2016 Ark. 418	30
2018	Walther v. FLIS Enters., Inc.†	540 S.W.3d 264	29
2015	Hartness v. Nuckles†	2015 Ark. 444	29
2015	McClinton v. State†	2015 Ark. 245	27
2018	LONNIE WILLIAMS v. KIA MCCOY†	2018 Ark. 17	26
2016	Foster v. Foster· Concurrence†	2016 Ark. 456	26
2018	Ratliff v. Kelley†	541 S.W.3d 408	25
2017	Martin v. Arkansas Department of Human Services· Concurrence†	2017 Ark. 115	25
2016	Reynolds v. State†	2016 Ark. 214	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 131 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 is Rhonda K. Wood on?: Rhonda K. Wood is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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11 years on the Supreme Court of Arkansas. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).