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 1965 / Served to 1971

Earl Eugene O'Connor

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Earl Eugene O'Connor was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1922–1998
Tenure: 1965–1971 · 6 yrs
Education: University of Kansas 1948

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Kansas

B.S.

1948

Judicial Record

In our data, O'Connor authored 148 published opinions for the court (1965–1971), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Bollinger v. Nuss (86 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. 151 of these were attributed to O'Connor 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
1969	Bollinger v. Nuss†	449 P.2d 502	86
1967	Maryland Cas. Co. v. American Family Insurance Group†	429 P.2d 931	64
1965	State v. Freeman†	408 P.2d 612	63
1970	Baker v. State†	464 P.2d 212	62
1969	Goforth v. Franklin Life Insurance†	449 P.2d 477	53
1968	State v. Gauger†	438 P.2d 455	51
1969	Lawrence v. Deemy†	461 P.2d 770	45
1971	Fast v. Kahan†	481 P.2d 958	40
1969	Johnson v. Stucker†	453 P.2d 35	40
1967	State v. Childs†	422 P.2d 898	40
1969	State v. Trotter†	453 P.2d 93	39
1969	Estate of Johnson v. Johnson†	452 P.2d 286	39
1968	American Family Mutual Insurance v. Grim†	440 P.2d 621	39
1967	Evangelist v. Bellern Research Corporation†	433 P.2d 380	39
1968	Lyon v. Wilson†	443 P.2d 314	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 151 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 Earl Eugene O'Connor on?: Earl Eugene O'Connor was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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6 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).