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 1976 / Served to 1983

William Milton Gant

Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals

William Milton Gant was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–1995
Tenure: 1976–1983 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	Kentucky Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Transylvania University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gant authored 123 published opinions for the court (1976–1982), plus 4 dissents. Most cited: Hill v. Willmott (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. 104 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
1978	Hill v. Willmott†	561 S.W.2d 331	59
1981	Brandenburg v. Brandenburg	617 S.W.2d 871	57
1978	Louisville Bear Safety Service, Inc. v. South Central Bell Telephone Co.†	571 S.W.2d 438	52
1978	Winn v. First Bank of Irvington	581 S.W.2d 21	35
1979	Foster v. Foster†	589 S.W.2d 223	29
1978	United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Napier Electric & Construction Co.†	571 S.W.2d 644	25
1978	Robinson v. Robinson†	569 S.W.2d 178	24
1977	Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government v. Middleton†	555 S.W.2d 613	21
1982	Ford v. Courier-Journal Job Printing Co.	639 S.W.2d 553	20
1978	University of Louisville v. Martin	574 S.W.2d 676	19
1978	Johantgen v. Commonwealth†	571 S.W.2d 110	18
1977	Meadows v. Commonwealth†	551 S.W.2d 253	18
1980	Carrier v. Commonwealth†	607 S.W.2d 115	17
1978	Wiley v. Commonwealth	575 S.W.2d 166	17
1977	Stewart v. Kentucky Paving Co., Inc.†	557 S.W.2d 435	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 127 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 William Milton Gant on?: William Milton Gant was a Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

Sources

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7 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).