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 2014 / Active

Caleb Stegall

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Caleb Stegall is a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Geneva College

Judicial Record

In our data, Stegall authored 48 published opinions for the court (2015–2019), plus 15 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Godfrey (489 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. 75 of these were attributed to Stegall 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
2015	State v. Godfrey†	301 Kan. 1041	489
2015	State v. Sprague†	303 Kan. 418	302
2018	State v. Thomas†	415 P.3d 430	294
2018	State v. Butler†	416 P.3d 116	266
2016	State v. Ryce· Dissent†	303 Kan. 899	172
2018	State v. Daniel†	410 P.3d 877	160
2016	State v. Rosa†	304 Kan. 429	152
2015	State v. Robinson†	303 Kan. 11	152
2016	State v. Petersen-Beard†	304 Kan. 192	130
2015	State v. Dern†	303 Kan. 384	118
2019	State v. Murdock†	439 P.3d 307	115
2016	State v. Williams†	303 Kan. 585	113
2016	State v. Patterson†	304 Kan. 272	100
2016	State v. Cooper†	303 Kan. 764	87
2016	State v. Nece· Concurrence†	303 Kan. 888	86

Showing the 15 most-cited of 75 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 is Caleb Stegall on?: Caleb Stegall is a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

12 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).