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 1997 / Served to 2004

W. H. Arnold

Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas

W. H. Arnold was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1997–2004 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Supreme Court of Arkansas	–	–

Education

Henderson State University
University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Arnold authored 193 published opinions for the court (1925–2003), plus 17 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Ford v. Keith (131 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. 19 of these were attributed to Arnold 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
1999	Ford v. Keith· Dissent†	996 S.W.2d 20	131
1999	Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing v. Baker	989 S.W.2d 151	105
2003	Hollandsworth v. Knyzewski	109 S.W.3d 653	101
1997	Shannon v. Wilson	947 S.W.2d 349	74
1999	Wade v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	990 S.W.2d 509	71
2001	AKA v. Jefferson Hosp. Ass'n, Inc.	42 S.W.3d 508	68
2003	Barrett v. State· Dissent†	119 S.W.3d 485	67
1998	Fultz v. State	972 S.W.2d 222	65
1997	Camargo v. State· Concurrence†	940 S.W.2d 464	63
1999	Bangs v. State	998 S.W.2d 738	61
1925	Brickhouse v. Hill· Concurrence	268 S.W. 865	60
1998	Ayers v. State	975 S.W.2d 88	59
1999	Norris v. State	993 S.W.2d 918	58
2001	Ramaker v. State	46 S.W.3d 519	57
1999	Myrick v. Myrick	2 S.W.3d 60	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 213 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 W. H. Arnold on?: W. H. Arnold was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Sources

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6 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).