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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Kentucky / Joined 1983 / Served to 1991

William S. Gant

Justice, Supreme Court of Kentucky

William S. Gant was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–1995
Tenure: 1983–1991 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Supreme Court of Kentucky	–	–

Education

Transylvania University
University of Kentucky

Judicial Record

In our data, Gant authored 76 published opinions for the court (1983–1990), plus 9 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Rose v. Council for Better Education, Inc. (284 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. 51 of these were attributed to Gant 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
1989	Rose v. Council for Better Education, Inc.· Concurrence†	790 S.W.2d 186	284
1985	Ward v. Commonwealth	695 S.W.2d 404	117
1984	McQueen v. Commonwealth	669 S.W.2d 519	112
1985	Wellman v. Commonwealth	694 S.W.2d 696	101
1985	Commonwealth v. Thompson	697 S.W.2d 143	78
1985	Wilson v. Commonwealth	695 S.W.2d 854	61
1984	Commonwealth v. Callahan	675 S.W.2d 391	52
1985	Eaton Axle Corp. v. Nally	688 S.W.2d 334	48
1990	Chaffin v. Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance Companies· Dissent†	789 S.W.2d 754	46
1989	Davis v. Collinsworth	771 S.W.2d 329	45
1983	Ford v. Commonwealth	665 S.W.2d 304	44
1985	Jordan v. Commonwealth	703 S.W.2d 870	43
1988	Huff v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	763 S.W.2d 106	39
1989	Morris v. Commonwealth	766 S.W.2d 58	36
1988	Southeastern Kentucky Baptist Hospital, Inc. v. Gaylor	756 S.W.2d 467	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 89 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 William S. Gant on?: William S. Gant was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Sources

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8 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).