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 2003 / Served to 2013

Robert Gladwin

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Robert Gladwin was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2003–2013 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gladwin authored 455 published opinions for the court (2003–2017), plus 24 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Dowdy v. Arkansas Department of Human Services (84 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. 164 of these were attributed to Gladwin 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
2009	Dowdy v. Arkansas Department of Human Services· Dissent†	314 S.W.3d 722	84
2015	Peals v. State	2015 Ark. App. 1	44
2009	Wilson v. Smurfit Stone Container†	373 S.W.3d 347	35
2004	Richardson v. State	157 S.W.3d 536	33
2004	Parker v. Atlantic Research Corp.	189 S.W.3d 449	32
2007	Long v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	250 S.W.3d 263	31
2014	Webb v. Webb	2014 Ark. App. 697	26
2011	Allen v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	384 S.W.3d 7	26
2006	Smith v. Eisen	245 S.W.3d 160	26
2012	Delgado v. Delgado†	389 S.W.3d 52	23
2011	Anderson v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	385 S.W.3d 367	21
2013	Diamante v. Dye	2013 Ark. App. 630	20
2017	Wilson v. Director, Department of Workforce Services	2017 Ark. App. 171	19
2008	Hicks v. Cook	288 S.W.3d 244	19
2008	Hall v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	278 S.W.3d 609	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 483 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 Robert Gladwin on?: Robert Gladwin was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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10 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).