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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Kentucky Court of Appeals / Joined 1991 / Served to 2006

Wil Schroder

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

Wil Schroder was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–2006 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Kentucky

Judicial Record

In our data, Schroder authored 149 published opinions for the court (1991–2006), plus 2 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Smith v. O'DEA (59 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. 105 of these were attributed to Schroder 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
1997	Smith v. O'DEA	939 S.W.2d 353	59
1998	Oakley v. Flor-Shin, Inc.	964 S.W.2d 438	51
1992	Washington v. Goodman	830 S.W.2d 398	42
2001	Burgess v. Taylor†	44 S.W.3d 806	41
1994	Zink v. Commonwealth, Department of Workers' Claims, Labor Cabinet	902 S.W.2d 825	32
1996	Bonnlander v. Leader National Insurance	949 S.W.2d 618	31
1992	Bass v. Williams	839 S.W.2d 559	31
2004	Grand Communities, Ltd. v. Stepner	170 S.W.3d 411	30
2004	Liquor Outlet, LLC v. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board†	141 S.W.3d 378	30
2000	Lambert v. Franklin Real Estate Co.†	37 S.W.3d 770	30
2003	Bailey v. North American Refractories Co.	95 S.W.3d 868	29
1999	Commonwealth Ex Rel. Chandler v. Anthem Insurance Companies	8 S.W.3d 48	27
2006	500 Associates, Inc. v. Natural Resources & Environmental Protection Cabinet	204 S.W.3d 121	26
1999	Palmer v. Commonwealth†	3 S.W.3d 763	23
1997	Faulkner Drilling Co., Inc. v. Gross†	943 S.W.2d 634	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 156 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 Kentucky Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Wil Schroder on?: Wil Schroder was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

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.

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