How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee / Joined 2008 / Active

Richard H. Dinkins

Judge, Court of Appeals of Tennessee

Richard H. Dinkins is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Court of Appeals of Tennessee	–	–

Education

Denison University
Vanderbilt University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dinkins authored 483 published opinions for the court (2004–2020), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Luplow v. Luplow (54 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. 2 of these were attributed to Dinkins 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
2014	Luplow v. Luplow†	450 S.W.3d 105	54
2009	Timmins v. Lindsey	310 S.W.3d 834	38
2009	Bennett v. Nissan North America, Inc.	315 S.W.3d 832	23
2009	Spears v. Tennessee Farmers Mutual Insurance Co.	300 S.W.3d 671	10
2011	Marsha Bordes v. Julian Bordes	358 S.W.3d 623	8
2009	Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation (Museum) v. Fisk University· Concurrence†	312 S.W.3d 1	8
2014	In Re the ADOPTION OF Male Child A.F.C. by C.M.C. and D.F.C., and J.L.B.	491 S.W.3d 316	6
2011	Moore v. Houston County Board of Education	358 S.W.3d 612	6
2011	In Re Fisk University	392 S.W.3d 582	2
2020	In Re Justin D.	–	0
2020	Amanda Paige Ryan-Cothron v. William Michael Cothron	–	0
2020	Leslie Allison Muse v. Robert Jolley, Jr.	–	0
2020	William A. Reese, Jr. v. Dominick Amari	–	0
2020	The Metropolitan Government Of Nashville & Davidson County, Tennessee v. Prime Nashville, LLC	–	0
2020	In Re Braelyn S. - concurring and dissenting	–	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 484 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 Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Richard H. Dinkins on?: Richard H. Dinkins is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Tennessee.

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