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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee / Joined 2000 / Active

Robert W. Wedemeyer

Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee

Robert W. Wedemeyer is a Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, serving since 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee	–	–

Education

Vanderbilt University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wedemeyer authored 1,583 published opinions for the court (1991–2026), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Boxley (88 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 Wedemeyer 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
2001	State v. Boxley	76 S.W.3d 381	88
2001	State v. Bowers	77 S.W.3d 776	45
2001	State v. Anthony	109 S.W.3d 377	24
2001	State v. Carpenter	69 S.W.3d 568	17
2007	State v. Parris	236 S.W.3d 173	16
2002	Rodney D. Palmer v. State of Tennessee	108 S.W.3d 887	6
2000	State v. Lanier†	81 S.W.3d 776	5
2001	State of Tennessee v. Ronald Stanley	67 S.W.3d 1	4
2004	State v. MacK· Concurrence†	188 S.W.3d 164	3
2026	Laura Naomi Clifton v. State of Tennessee	–	0
2026	State of Tennessee v. Cordero Klein Blake	–	0
2026	State of Tennessee v. Merv Conley Rodgers	–	0
2026	State of Tennessee v. Richard Higgs, Jr.	–	0
2026	Bobby Joe Patrick v. State of Tennessee	–	0
2026	State of Tennessee v. Justin James Cruger Wendricks	–	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,584 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 Criminal Appeals of Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Robert W. Wedemeyer on?: Robert W. Wedemeyer is a Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee.

Sources

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