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Supreme Court of Kentucky / Joined 2004 / Former Justice

Will T. Scott

Justice, Supreme Court of Kentucky

Will T. Scott was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Supreme Court of Kentucky	–	–

Education

University of Pikeville

Judicial Record

In our data, Scott authored 159 published opinions for the court (2005–2014), plus 57 dissents and 64 concurrences. Most cited: Brown v. Commonwealth (259 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. 266 of these were attributed to Scott 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	Brown v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	313 S.W.3d 577	259
2006	Rowan County v. Sloas	201 S.W.3d 469	204
2013	Shelton v. Kentucky Easter Seals Society, Inc.· Dissent†	413 S.W.3d 901	198
2005	3D Entersprises Contracting Corp. v. Louisville Jefferson & County Metropolitan Sewer District· Concurrence†	174 S.W.3d 440	169
2008	Harp v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	266 S.W.3d 813	154
2007	Clark v. Commonwealth· Dissent†	223 S.W.3d 90	145
2009	Ten Broeck Dupont, Inc. v. Brooks†	283 S.W.3d 705	138
2009	Miller v. Commonwealth†	283 S.W.3d 690	122
2007	Shane v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	243 S.W.3d 336	120
2008	Chestnut v. Commonwealth†	250 S.W.3d 288	111
2010	Blankenship v. Collier· Dissent†	302 S.W.3d 665	107
2010	Haney v. Monsky Ex Rel. Zager†	311 S.W.3d 235	100
2009	Rodgers v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	285 S.W.3d 740	99
2009	Flegles, Inc. v. Truserv Corp.· Dissent†	289 S.W.3d 544	97
2005	Lewis v. Jackson Energy Cooperative Corp.· Dissent†	189 S.W.3d 87	96

Showing the 15 most-cited of 280 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 Will T. Scott on?: Will T. Scott was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Sources

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22 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).