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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Arkansas / Joined 1987 / Served to 2008

Tom Glaze

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

Tom Glaze was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1938 · age 88
Tenure: 1987–2008 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Glaze authored 942 published opinions for the court (1987–2008), plus 271 dissents and 222 concurrences. Most cited: Finn v. McCuen (433 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. 836 of these were attributed to Glaze 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
1990	Finn v. McCuen· Dissent†	798 S.W.2d 34	433
1994	Bailey v. McCuen· Dissent†	884 S.W.2d 938	411
1990	Becker v. McCuen· Concurrence†	798 S.W.2d 71	409
1994	Christian Civic Action Committee v. McCuen· Dissent†	884 S.W.2d 605	398
1992	Plugge Ex Rel. Arkansas for Representative Democracy v. McCuen	841 S.W.2d 139	397
2001	Dinkins v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	40 S.W.3d 286	267
1989	McCambridge v. City of Little Rock· Concurrence†	766 S.W.2d 909	247
1998	Stilley v. McBride	965 S.W.2d 125	245
2006	Howard v. State	238 S.W.3d 24	177
2000	State v. Larimore· Dissent†	17 S.W.3d 87	177
2002	Lake View School District No. 25 v. Huckabee· Concurrence†	91 S.W.3d 472	132
2003	Anderson v. State· Concurrence†	108 S.W.3d 592	111
1987	Parker v. State· Dissent†	731 S.W.2d 756	93
1992	First Nat. Bank of Crossett v. Griffin· Dissent†	832 S.W.2d 816	89
1994	Donoho v. Donoho	887 S.W.2d 290	87

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,436 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 was Tom Glaze on?: Tom Glaze was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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