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 2009 / Active

Rita Gruber

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Rita Gruber is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gruber authored 383 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 9 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Welch v. Arkansas Department of Human Services (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. 185 of these were attributed to Gruber 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
2010	Welch v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	378 S.W.3d 290	54
2013	Smith v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2013 Ark. App. 753	51
2016	Houseman v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	2016 Ark. App. 227	46
2014	Harbin v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2014 Ark. App. 715	37
2014	Schaible v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2014 Ark. App. 541	36
2017	Cobb v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2017 Ark. App. 85	34
2011	Maynard v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	389 S.W.3d 627	28
2010	K.C. v. Arkansas Department of Human Services· Concurrence†	374 S.W.3d 884	25
2009	Roberts Contracting Co. v. Valentine-Wooten Road PubLic Facility Board	320 S.W.3d 1	24
2011	Boudreau v. Pierce· Concurrence†	384 S.W.3d 664	23
2013	Fenstermacher v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	426 S.W.3d 483	22
2011	LVL, Inc. v. Ragsdale†	381 S.W.3d 869	22
2017	Norton v. Ark. Dep't of Human Servs.	2017 Ark. App. 285	21
2009	Magana-Galdamez v. State	291 S.W.3d 203	21
2019	Grimsley v. Drewyor†	575 S.W.3d 636	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 411 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 is Rita Gruber on?: Rita Gruber is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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17 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).