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 1996 / Served to 2006

Thomas T. Woodall

Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee

Thomas T. Woodall was a Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1996–2006 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Woodall authored 1,390 published opinions for the court (1992–2020), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: State v. Taylor (492 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. 9 of these were attributed to Woodall 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. Taylor	63 S.W.3d 400	492
2001	State v. Alder	71 S.W.3d 299	157
2006	State v. Biggs· Dissent†	218 S.W.3d 643	93
2007	State v. Osborne	251 S.W.3d 1	89
2000	State v. Smith	42 S.W.3d 101	84
1998	Irick v. State	973 S.W.2d 643	75
2001	State v. Ratliff	71 S.W.3d 291	67
1999	State v. Hastings	25 S.W.3d 178	64
2000	State v. Spratt	31 S.W.3d 587	57
1998	State v. Leath	977 S.W.2d 132	57
2003	State v. Thompson	131 S.W.3d 923	56
2010	State v. Hayes	337 S.W.3d 235	55
2001	State v. Blackhurst	70 S.W.3d 88	45
1999	State v. Heflin	15 S.W.3d 519	43
2006	State v. Lindsey	208 S.W.3d 432	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,392 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 was Thomas T. Woodall on?: Thomas T. Woodall was a Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee.

Sources

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10 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).