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 2003 / Active

Carol A. Beier

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Carol A. Beier is a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Benedictine College

Judicial Record

In our data, Beier authored 248 published opinions for the court (2003–2019), plus 14 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Keel (491 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. 150 of these were attributed to Beier 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. Keel· Concurrence†	302 Kan. 560	491
2016	State v. Dunn†	304 Kan. 773	363
2006	State v. Gunby	144 P.3d 647	340
2013	Stechschulte v. Jennings†	297 Kan. 2	233
2018	Beauclair v. State†	419 P.3d 1180	213
2006	State v. Robinson	281 Kan. 538	205
2007	State v. Thompson· Dissent†	166 P.3d 1015	203
2014	State v. Smith-Parker†	301 Kan. 132	182
2019	State v. Johnson†	441 P.3d 1036	180
2007	In re K.M.H.†	285 Kan. 53	177
2014	State v. Hall†	298 Kan. 978	167
2015	Fuller v. State†	303 Kan. 478	164
2016	State v. Fisher†	304 Kan. 242	158
2013	Waste Connections of Kansas, Inc. v. Ritchie Corp.†	296 Kan. 943	157
2005	State v. Engelhardt	280 Kan. 113	145

Showing the 15 most-cited of 282 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 Carol A. Beier on?: Carol A. Beier is a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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23 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).