How do judges of the Supreme Court of Tennessee reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Tennessee / Joined 1961 / Served to 1967

Weldon B. White

Justice, Supreme Court of Tennessee

Weldon B. White was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1907 · age 119
Tenure: 1961–1967 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Supreme Court of Tennessee	–	–

Education

Cumberland University
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, White authored 166 published opinions for the court (1961–1966), plus 2 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: McBee v. State (349 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. 62 of these were attributed to White 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
1963	McBee v. State	372 S.W.2d 173	349
1964	Robinson v. Air Draulics Engineering Company	377 S.W.2d 908	126
1962	Strader v. State· Concurrence†	362 S.W.2d 224	114
1964	Lazenby Ex Rel. Lazenby v. Universal Underwriters Insurance· Concurrence†	383 S.W.2d 1	104
1962	Johnson v. Central National Ins. Co. of Omaha, Neb.	356 S.W.2d 277	98
1962	Holt v. State	357 S.W.2d 57	95
1964	State Ex Rel. Wilkerson v. Bomar	376 S.W.2d 451	84
1966	Monts v. State	400 S.W.2d 722	73
1962	White v. State	356 S.W.2d 411	67
1964	Gann v. State	383 S.W.2d 32	62
1964	Kroger Company v. Giem	387 S.W.2d 620	61
1962	Shousha v. Matthews Drivurself Service, Inc.	358 S.W.2d 471	59
1965	Hayes v. Gill	390 S.W.2d 213	56
1966	Shiflet v. State	400 S.W.2d 542	52
1965	Quarles v. Sutherland	389 S.W.2d 249	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 171 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 Tennessee reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Weldon B. White on?: Weldon B. White was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

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