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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Kentucky / Joined 2006 / Served to 2007

William E. McAnulty Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Kentucky

William E. McAnulty Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, who joined the court in 2006. He previously served on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 2006–2007 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–
2006	Supreme Court of Kentucky	–	–

Education

University of Louisville
University of Louisville

Judicial Record

In our data, McAnulty authored 68 published opinions for the court (1999–2007), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Blevins v. Moran (87 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. 49 of these were attributed to McAnulty 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
2000	Blevins v. Moran	12 S.W.3d 698	87
2000	Stone v. Kentucky Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.†	34 S.W.3d 809	85
2007	Abney v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.†	215 S.W.3d 699	73
2006	Gray v. Commonwealth· Concurrence†	203 S.W.3d 679	69
2006	Andrew v. Begley†	203 S.W.3d 165	69
2007	Cummings v. Commonwealth†	226 S.W.3d 62	57
2004	McManus v. Kentucky Retirement Systems	124 S.W.3d 454	54
2003	Hunter v. Hunter	127 S.W.3d 656	54
2007	Steel Technologies, Inc. v. Congleton· Concurrence†	234 S.W.3d 920	49
2007	Dunn v. Felty†	226 S.W.3d 68	48
2001	Wilson v. Lowe's Home Center	75 S.W.3d 229	38
1999	McLain v. Dana Corp.	16 S.W.3d 320	32
2003	Commonwealth v. Long†	118 S.W.3d 178	29
2007	Pile v. City of Brandenburg· Dissent†	215 S.W.3d 36	28
2007	Williams v. Commonwealth	229 S.W.3d 49	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 74 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 E. McAnulty Jr. on?: William E. McAnulty Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky.

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1 year 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).