How do judges of the Kansas Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Kansas Court of Appeals / Joined 1987 / Served to 1995

Edward Larson

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

Edward Larson was a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–1995 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Kansas State University
University of Kansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Larson authored 101 published opinions for the court (1988–2000), plus 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Cruz (45 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. 67 of these were attributed to Larson 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
1991	State v. Cruz†	809 P.2d 1233	45
1992	State v. Huskey†	834 P.2d 1371	43
1989	Smith v. Blackwell†	791 P.2d 1343	37
1995	TMG Life Insurance v. Ashner	21 Kan. App. 2d 234	34
1988	Rowland v. Val-Agri, Inc.	766 P.2d 819	34
1993	Cupples v. State†	861 P.2d 1360	29
1992	State v. Maze†	825 P.2d 1169	29
1995	Crescent Oil Co. v. Federated Mutual Insurance†	20 Kan. App. 2d 428	27
1994	LeaseAmerica Corp. v. Stewart†	876 P.2d 184	25
1994	Miller v. Lee Apparel Co.†	881 P.2d 576	24
1991	Snodgrass v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	804 P.2d 1012	24
1988	Pittman v. McDowell, Rice & Smith, Chtd.†	752 P.2d 711	24
1992	In Re the Marriage of Schwien†	839 P.2d 541	22
1995	State v. Myers†	20 Kan. App. 2d 401	20
1989	Home Life Insurance v. Clay†	773 P.2d 666	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 104 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 Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Edward Larson on?: Edward Larson was a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Sources

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8 years on the Kansas Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).