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 1957 / Served to 1958

Fred Hall

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Fred Hall was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–1970
Tenure: 1957–1958 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Southern California
University of Southern California

Judicial Record

In our data, Hall authored 41 published opinions for the court (1957–1958), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Kendrick v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad (59 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. 8 of these were attributed to Hall 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
1958	Kendrick v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad	320 P.2d 1061	59
1958	Quality Oil Co. v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.· Dissent†	322 P.2d 731	39
1957	Spurgeon v. Board of Commissioners	317 P.2d 798	33
1957	Jackson v. Jackson	309 P.2d 705	32
1957	Russell v. American Rock Crusher Co.	317 P.2d 847	26
1957	Moore v. Kansas Turnpike Authority	317 P.2d 384	24
1957	State Ex Rel. Martin v. City of Kansas City· Dissent†	317 P.2d 806	23
1958	Richardson v. Hand	320 P.2d 837	20
1958	State v. Robinson	322 P.2d 767	16
1957	Rupe v. Smith	313 P.2d 293	16
1958	Carlburg v. Wesley Hospital & Nurse Training School	323 P.2d 638	15
1957	Stephenson v. Wallis	311 P.2d 355	15
1957	Haga v. Moss, Administrator	311 P.2d 281	15
1957	Davis v. Rhyne	312 P.2d 626	14
1958	Trimble v. Spears	320 P.2d 1029	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 43 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 Fred Hall on?: Fred Hall was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

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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).