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 1991 / Served to 2012

Robert L. Brown

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Robert L. Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–2012 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 829 published opinions for the court (1991–2012), plus 210 dissents and 184 concurrences. Most cited: Bailey v. McCuen (411 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. 642 of these were attributed to Brown 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
1994	Bailey v. McCuen	884 S.W.2d 938	411
2012	Howard v. State†	403 S.W.3d 38	227
2002	Lake View School District No. 25 v. Huckabee	91 S.W.3d 472	132
2002	Faulkner v. Arkansas Children's Hospital	69 S.W.3d 393	124
1995	Nooner v. State	907 S.W.2d 677	122
2003	Davis v. State· Dissent†	94 S.W.3d 892	118
2002	Linder v. Linder	72 S.W.3d 841	117
2007	Williams v. State	251 S.W.3d 290	101
1992	Anderson v. Douglas	839 S.W.2d 196	101
2002	Jegley v. Picado· Concurrence†	80 S.W.3d 332	100
2001	Laime v. State	60 S.W.3d 464	96
2000	Kurrus Ex Rel. Arkansans to Protect Police, Libraries, Education, & Services (APPLES) v. Priest· Concurrence†	29 S.W.3d 669	92
1994	U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Hill	872 S.W.2d 349	92
2007	Taylor v. Taylor	250 S.W.3d 232	86
1999	George v. Jefferson Hosp. Ass'n, Inc.· Dissent†	987 S.W.2d 710	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,223 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 Robert L. Brown on?: Robert L. Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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21 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).