How do judges of the Kansas Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Kansas Supreme Court / Joined 1966 / Served to 1982

Alex M. Fromme

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Alex M. Fromme was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1915–1982
Tenure: 1966–1982 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Washburn University
Washburn University

Judicial Record

In our data, Fromme authored 451 published opinions for the court (1966–1982), plus 69 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Freeman (209 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. 121 of these were attributed to Fromme 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	State v. Freeman	574 P.2d 950	209
1978	Brown v. Keill	580 P.2d 867	202
1982	State v. Ortiz	640 P.2d 1255	196
1980	Kennedy v. City of Sawyer	618 P.2d 788	164
1974	Manzanares v. Bell· Concurrence†	522 P.2d 1291	150
1981	Roberts v. Saylor	637 P.2d 1175	141
1969	Carroll v. Kittle· Dissent†	457 P.2d 21	127
1982	Schmeck v. City of Shawnee· Dissent†	651 P.2d 585	113
1974	State v. Wilkins	523 P.2d 728	104
1982	Robertson v. City of Topeka· Dissent†	644 P.2d 458	96
1977	Lightcap v. Mobil Oil Corporation· Concurrence†	562 P.2d 1	96
1976	Jones v. Hittle Service, Inc.· Dissent†	549 P.2d 1383	92
1981	State v. Warren· Dissent†	635 P.2d 1236	91
1982	Woods v. Midwest Conveyor Co.	648 P.2d 234	86
1973	State v. Lora	515 P.2d 1086	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 539 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 Kansas Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Alex M. Fromme on?: Alex M. Fromme was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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