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 2009 / Active

Dan Biles

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Dan Biles is a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Washburn University

Judicial Record

In our data, Biles authored 165 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 9 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Kelly (523 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. 156 of these were attributed to Biles 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
2014	State v. Kelly†	298 Kan. 965	523
2014	State v. Williams†	298 Kan. 1075	390
2018	State v. Chandler†	414 P.3d 713	299
2015	State v. Collins†	303 Kan. 472	282
2012	State v. McCullough	270 P.3d 1142	273
2014	State v. Murdock†	299 Kan. 312	250
2014	State v. Bowen†	299 Kan. 339	198
2013	State v. Cheatham†	296 Kan. 417	164
2014	Miller v. State†	298 Kan. 921	162
2019	Nauheim v. City of Topeka†	432 P.3d 647	161
2016	State v. Fisher· Concurrence†	304 Kan. 242	158
2014	State v. Neighbors†	299 Kan. 234	153
2016	State ex rel. Schmidt v. City of Wichita· Concurrence†	303 Kan. 650	148
2015	State v. Overman· Concurrence†	301 Kan. 704	139
2018	State v. Gonzalez†	412 P.3d 968	138

Showing the 15 most-cited of 191 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 Dan Biles on?: Dan Biles is a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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17 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).