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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas / Joined 1983 / Served to 1986

Tom Glaze

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Tom Glaze was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–1986 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Glaze authored 197 published opinions for the court (1981–1986), plus 21 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Feagin v. Everett (38 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. 178 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
1983	Feagin v. Everett· Dissent†	652 S.W.2d 839	38
1985	Ketron v. Ketron†	15 Ark. App. 325	36
1981	Jones v. Scheduled Skyways, Inc.	612 S.W.2d 333	32
1982	Hamilton v. Jeffrey Stone Co.	641 S.W.2d 723	30
1984	Guidry v. J & R Eads Construction Co.· Dissent†	669 S.W.2d 483	28
1984	Jones v. State	668 S.W.2d 30	28
1982	Lytle v. Citizens Bank of Batesville	630 S.W.2d 546	28
1985	Harris v. State· Concurrence†	689 S.W.2d 353	25
1981	Humphries v. Bray	611 S.W.2d 791	25
1985	Girard v. Rebsamen Insurance	685 S.W.2d 526	24
1983	Grigsby v. Everett	649 S.W.2d 404	23
1982	Aluminum Co. of America v. Neal	626 S.W.2d 620	22
1981	Gaylord v. State	613 S.W.2d 409	22
1984	Scherm v. Scherm†	12 Ark. App. 207	20
1981	Moore v. First National Bank of Hot Springs	623 S.W.2d 530	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 234 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 Appeals of Arkansas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Tom Glaze on?: Tom Glaze was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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