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 1993 / Served to 2009

Edward E. Davis

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Edward E. Davis was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1939–2010
Tenure: 1993–2009 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Creighton University
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Davis authored 344 published opinions for the court (1993–2010), plus 20 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. King (398 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. 73 of these were attributed to Davis 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
2009	State v. King†	288 Kan. 333	398
2006	State v. Gumfory	281 Kan. 1168	385
2006	State v. Gary	144 P.3d 634	207
2004	State v. Holmes	102 P.3d 406	161
1998	Hamilton v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.	953 P.2d 1027	154
2010	State v. Arnett	223 P.3d 780	150
1999	Bergstrom v. Noah	974 P.2d 531	149
2001	State v. Kleypas· Dissent†	40 P.3d 139	144
2007	State v. Davis†	283 Kan. 569	131
2004	State v. Hebert	82 P.3d 470	130
1997	State v. Moncla	936 P.2d 727	127
1998	Marquis v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.	961 P.2d 1213	124
1993	Smith v. Printup	866 P.2d 985	120
2009	Hodges v. Johnson	199 P.3d 1251	115
2009	Hamlin v. Kansas Department of Revenue†	288 Kan. 390	112

Showing the 15 most-cited of 371 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 E. Davis on?: Edward E. Davis was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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16 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).