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 2009 / Active

Waymond Brown

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arkansas

Waymond Brown is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Court of Appeals of Arkansas	–	–

Education

University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 368 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 19 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: SSI, INC. v. Cates (47 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. 163 of these were attributed to Brown 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
2009	SSI, INC. v. Cates	350 S.W.3d 421	47
2017	Springs v. State	2017 Ark. App. 364	46
2014	Hamman v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2014 Ark. App. 295	37
2009	Rice v. Ragsdale†	292 S.W.3d 856	32
2009	Jones-Lee v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	316 S.W.3d 261	26
2011	L.W. v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	380 S.W.3d 489	21
2016	Newkirk v. Hankins	2016 Ark. App. 186	20
2011	Harper v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	378 S.W.3d 884	19
2015	Brumley v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2015 Ark. App. 90	18
2012	Cotton v. Arkansas Dep't of Human Services†	422 S.W.3d 130	18
2016	Edwards v. Arkansas Department of Human Services	2016 Ark. App. 37	16
2012	Plessy v. State†	388 S.W.3d 509	16
2011	Strother v. Mitchell†	382 S.W.3d 741	16
2016	Bean v. Arkansas Department of Human Services†	2016 Ark. App. 350	15
2018	Pine Hills Health & Rehab. LLC v. Talley†	546 S.W.3d 492	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 394 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 is Waymond Brown on?: Waymond Brown is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

Sources

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17 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).