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 1988

Fred N. Six

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

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

Born: 1929 · age 97
Tenure: 1987–1988 · 1 yr

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Six authored 20 published opinions for the court (1987–2000). Most cited: Knight v. Myers (26 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. 10 of these were attributed to Six 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
1988	Knight v. Myers	748 P.2d 896	26
1988	State v. George†	754 P.2d 460	15
1988	DeWerff v. Schartz†	751 P.2d 1047	14
2000	Endorf v. Bohlender	995 P.2d 896	13
1988	Linsea v. Board of Chase County Comm'rs	753 P.2d 1292	11
1987	State v. McMannis†	747 P.2d 1343	11
1987	Missouri Valley Investment Co. v. Curtis†	745 P.2d 683	11
1988	Wornkey v. Wornkey	749 P.2d 1045	10
1988	Wellsville Bank v. Sutterby†	752 P.2d 700	9
2000	State v. Maggard	995 P.2d 916	8
1987	In the Interest of A.B.†	12 Kan. App. 2d 391	8
1988	Williams v. Excel Corp.	756 P.2d 1104	7
1988	Allen Memorial Hosp. v. BD OF BUTLER CTY COMM'RS	753 P.2d 1302	6
1987	Ridgway v. Board of Ford County Commissioners	748 P.2d 891	6
1988	State v. Burnett†	762 P.2d 192	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 20 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 Fred N. Six on?: Fred N. Six was a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Sources

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1 year 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).