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 1949 / Served to 1950

Edward F. Arn

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Edward F. Arn was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1998
Tenure: 1949–1950 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Kansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Arn authored 30 published opinions for the court (1949–1950), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Bailey v. Resner (32 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. 25 of these were attributed to Arn 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
1950	Bailey v. Resner	214 P.2d 323	32
1949	Powell v. Turner†	167 Kan. 524	19
1950	Travelers Insurance v. Hulme	213 P.2d 645	18
1949	McEwen v. Enoch†	167 Kan. 119	18
1950	Hill v. Day	215 P.2d 219	14
1949	Brown v. Pugh†	168 Kan. 270	14
1949	City of Wichita v. Stevens†	167 Kan. 408	14
1949	Pyle v. Millar†	167 Kan. 455	14
1949	Petty v. Petty†	167 Kan. 510	13
1950	Mall v. C. & W. Rural Electric Cooperative Ass'n	213 P.2d 993	12
1950	Hill v. Hill	215 P.2d 159	11
1949	State v. Radke†	168 Kan. 334	10
1950	Washington Township v. Hart	215 P.2d 180	9
1949	Bisagno v. Lane†	168 Kan. 153	8
1949	Osborn v. Cassity†	167 Kan. 656	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 31 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 Edward F. Arn on?: Edward F. Arn was 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.

1 year 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).