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 1987 / Served to 2007

Donald L. Allegrucci

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Donald L. Allegrucci was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1936 · age 90
Tenure: 1987–2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Pittsburg State University
Washburn University

Judicial Record

In our data, Allegrucci authored 359 published opinions for the court (1987–2007), plus 25 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Tosh (217 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. 95 of these were attributed to Allegrucci 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
2004	State v. Tosh	91 P.3d 1204	217
1998	State v. McKinney	961 P.2d 1	185
1991	Bair v. Peck· Dissent†	811 P.2d 1176	152
2006	State v. Ackward	281 Kan. 2	126
1991	Brown v. United Methodist Homes for the Aged	815 P.2d 72	121
1990	Pizel v. Zuspann	795 P.2d 42	106
1987	Tetuan v. A.H. Robins Co.	738 P.2d 1210	100
2000	State v. Carter	14 P.3d 1138	98
2004	State v. Marsh	102 P.3d 445	96
2007	Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska v. Kline	150 P.3d 892	89
1993	State v. Kingsley	851 P.2d 370	85
1990	State Ex Rel. Stephan v. Kansas Racing Commission	792 P.2d 971	81
1987	Slaymaker v. Westgate State Bank	739 P.2d 444	79
2004	State v. Ramirez· Dissent†	100 P.3d 94	78
2006	Foster v. Kansas Department of Revenue	281 Kan. 368	77

Showing the 15 most-cited of 399 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 Donald L. Allegrucci on?: Donald L. Allegrucci was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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19 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).