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Supreme Court of Kentucky / Joined 2007 / Served to 2013

Wilfrid Schroder

Justice, Supreme Court of Kentucky

Wilfrid Schroder was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 2007–2013 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Supreme Court of Kentucky	–	–

Education

University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky

Judicial Record

In our data, Schroder authored 64 published opinions for the court (2007–2012), plus 12 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Fox v. Grayson (225 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. 97 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
2010	Fox v. Grayson· Dissent†	317 S.W.3d 1	225
2008	Harp v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	266 S.W.3d 813	154
2009	Ten Broeck Dupont, Inc. v. Brooks· Concurrence†	283 S.W.3d 705	138
2010	Wilburn v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	312 S.W.3d 321	86
2010	Coomer v. CSX Transportation, Inc.†	319 S.W.3d 366	79
2010	Kentucky River Medical Center v. McIntosh· Dissent†	319 S.W.3d 385	79
2010	Mullins v. Picklesimer†	317 S.W.3d 569	75
2012	Swan v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	384 S.W.3d 77	72
2012	Wright v. House of Imports, Inc.· Concurrence†	381 S.W.3d 209	70
2012	Michael Schnuerle v. Insight Communications Company, L.P.· Concurrence†	376 S.W.3d 561	68
2011	Vision Mining, Inc. v. Gardner· Concurrence†	364 S.W.3d 455	48
2008	Workforce Development Cabinet v. Gaines†	276 S.W.3d 789	46
2011	Nash v. Campbell County Fiscal Court†	345 S.W.3d 811	45
2009	Hartsfield v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	277 S.W.3d 239	42
2012	Sawyers v. Beller†	384 S.W.3d 107	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 98 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 Kentucky reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Wilfrid Schroder on?: Wilfrid Schroder was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Sources

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