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 1957 / Served to 1987

Alfred G. Schroeder

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Alfred G. Schroeder was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–1998
Tenure: 1957–1987 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Schroeder authored 783 published opinions for the court (1957–1987), plus 141 dissents and 25 concurrences. Most cited: Ling v. Jan's Liquors (224 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. 236 of these were attributed to Schroeder 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
1985	Ling v. Jan's Liquors	703 P.2d 731	224
1960	Natanson v. Kline	350 P.2d 1093	173
1984	Wooderson v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.· Dissent†	681 P.2d 1038	146
1976	Brown v. Wichita State University	547 P.2d 1015	138
1960	Natanson v. Kline	354 P.2d 670	111
1975	Leek v. Theis	539 P.2d 304	109
1957	State v. Brown	312 P.2d 832	109
1980	Nocktonick Ex Rel. Matson v. Nocktonick· Dissent†	611 P.2d 135	108
1983	Sampson v. Hunt	665 P.2d 743	102
1961	Wolf v. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association	366 P.2d 219	102
1983	Hoard v. Shawnee Mission Medical Center	662 P.2d 1214	99
1982	Robertson v. City of Topeka	644 P.2d 458	96
1977	Lightcap v. Mobil Oil Corporation· Concurrence†	562 P.2d 1	96
1983	Szoboszlay v. Glessner	664 P.2d 1327	91
1974	Dawson v. Associates Financial Services Co. of Kansas, Inc.	529 P.2d 104	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 949 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 Alfred G. Schroeder on?: Alfred G. Schroeder was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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30 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).