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 2005 / Active

Eric S. Rosen

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Eric S. Rosen is a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, serving since 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Washburn University

Judicial Record

In our data, Rosen authored 207 published opinions for the court (2006–2019), plus 23 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Ward (1,316 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. 156 of these were attributed to Rosen 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
2011	State v. Ward· Dissent†	256 P.3d 801	1,316
2015	State v. Keel†	302 Kan. 560	491
2015	State v. Dickey†	301 Kan. 1018	422
2015	State v. Marshall†	303 Kan. 438	417
2012	State v. Stafford†	296 Kan. 25	340
2018	State v. Thomas· Dissent†	415 P.3d 430	294
2018	State v. Arnett†	413 P.3d 787	265
2014	State v. Murdock· Dissent†	299 Kan. 312	250
2018	State v. Ingham†	430 P.3d 931	242
2009	Unruh v. PURINA MILLS, LLC· Concurrence†	221 P.3d 1130	207
2016	State v. Lee†	304 Kan. 416	185
2007	Bellamy v. State	172 P.3d 10	180
2016	State v. Fisher· Concurrence†	304 Kan. 242	158
2014	State v. Fritz†	299 Kan. 153	151
2014	State v. Betancourt†	299 Kan. 131	144

Showing the 15 most-cited of 250 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 is Eric S. Rosen on?: Eric S. Rosen is a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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21 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).