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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Kentucky Court of Appeals / Joined 1969 / Served to 1975

Scott Reed

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Scott Reed was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1921 · age 105
Tenure: 1969–1975 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Reed authored 259 published opinions for the court (1969–1975), plus 6 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Saylor v. Hall (151 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. 209 of these were attributed to Reed 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
1973	Saylor v. Hall	497 S.W.2d 218	151
1971	Smyzer v. BF Goodrich Chemical Company	474 S.W.2d 367	134
1970	Duncan v. O'NAN	451 S.W.2d 626	92
1971	City of Louisville v. McDonald	470 S.W.2d 173	78
1973	Jones v. Hutchinson Manufacturing, Inc.	502 S.W.2d 66	77
1970	Cotton v. Commonwealth	454 S.W.2d 698	76
1970	Colley v. Colley	460 S.W.2d 821	66
1970	Blair v. Eblen	461 S.W.2d 370	65
1970	Holbrook v. Rose	458 S.W.2d 155	54
1972	Bradshaw v. Ball	487 S.W.2d 294	49
1969	Bonn v. Sears, Roebuck & Company	440 S.W.2d 526	40
1974	Cook United, Inc. v. Waits	512 S.W.2d 493	39
1969	Hudson v. Owens	439 S.W.2d 565	36
1973	Nazareth Literary & Benevolent Institution v. Stephenson	503 S.W.2d 177	34
1969	Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Kentucky Unemployment Insurance Commission	437 S.W.2d 775	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 268 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 Kentucky Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Scott Reed on?: Scott Reed was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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