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 2017 / Active

Shawn A. Womack

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Shawn A. Womack is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, serving since 2017. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2017 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2017	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Womack authored 43 published opinions for the court (2017–2019), plus 13 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: McCullough v. State (31 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. 66 of these were attributed to Womack 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
2017	McCullough v. State†	2017 Ark. 292	31
2018	Walther v. FLIS Enters., Inc.· Concurrence†	540 S.W.3d 264	29
2018	Harris v. State· Dissent†	547 S.W.3d 64	27
2019	Banks v. Jones†	575 S.W.3d 111	25
2018	MICHAEL LEE GARRISON v. WENDY KELLEY, DIR.†	2018 Ark. 8	23
2018	Mosley v. State†	544 S.W.3d 55	19
2018	Osburn v. State†	560 S.W.3d 774	17
2017	Arkansas Department of Correction v. Shults· Concurrence†	2017 Ark. 300	17
2018	Ark. Cmty. Corr. v. Barnes†	542 S.W.3d 841	16
2017	Wilson v. Walther· Concurrence†	2017 Ark. 270	16
2017	Marshall v. State†	2017 Ark. 208	16
2017	Rodgers v. Rodgers· Dissent†	2017 Ark. 182	15
2017	Edwards v. Kelley· Concurrence†	2017 Ark. 254	14
2017	Dye v. Diamante†	2017 Ark. 42	13
2017	Clay v. Kelley†	2017 Ark. 294	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 66 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 is Shawn A. Womack on?: Shawn A. Womack is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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9 years on the Supreme Court of Arkansas. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).