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 1970 / Active

Stephen White

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Stephen White is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, serving since 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1970 · 56 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Central Florida
Florida State University

Judicial Record

In our data, White authored 119 published opinions for the court (1970–2010), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Columbia Sussex Corp., Inc. v. Hay (98 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. 85 of these were attributed to White 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
1981	Columbia Sussex Corp., Inc. v. Hay	627 S.W.2d 270	98
1979	Hartford Insurance Group v. Citizens Fidelity Bank & Trust Co.†	579 S.W.2d 628	48
1978	Webb v. Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance Co.†	577 S.W.2d 17	46
1989	Tipton v. Commonwealth	770 S.W.2d 239	37
1989	Hazelwood v. Beauchamp	766 S.W.2d 439	37
1985	State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. v. Ellis†	700 S.W.2d 801	32
1980	Energy Regulatory Commission v. Kentucky Power Co.	605 S.W.2d 46	30
1984	BTC Leasing, Inc. v. Martin	685 S.W.2d 191	28
1982	Moss v. Moss	639 S.W.2d 370	28
1977	Morris v. Hoffman†	551 S.W.2d 8	28
1980	Lawrence Ex Rel. Lawrence v. Risen†	598 S.W.2d 474	21
1983	Grant v. Wrona	662 S.W.2d 227	20
1983	Kentucky Unemployment Insurance Commission v. King	657 S.W.2d 250	19
1977	Murphy v. Commonwealth	551 S.W.2d 838	19
1982	Hertz Commercial Leasing Corp. v. Joseph	641 S.W.2d 753	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 121 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 is Stephen White on?: Stephen White is a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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56 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).