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 1990 / Served to 2003

Frederick N. Six

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Frederick N. Six was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1929 · age 97
Tenure: 1990–2003 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Kansas
University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Six authored 309 published opinions for the court (1988–2003), plus 23 dissents and 29 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Ivory (522 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. 90 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
2002	State v. Ivory	41 P.3d 781	522
2000	State v. Pabst	996 P.2d 321	246
2001	State v. Gould	23 P.3d 801	213
1991	Kansas State Bank & Trust Co. v. Specialized Transportation Services, Inc.	819 P.2d 587	190
1998	State v. DeMarco	952 P.2d 1276	164
1990	Glenn v. Fleming	799 P.2d 79	151
1993	State v. Donlay· Dissent†	853 P.2d 680	145
1993	Nero v. Kansas State University· Concurrence†	861 P.2d 768	143
1996	State v. Myers	923 P.2d 1024	141
1990	State v. Hall	793 P.2d 737	126
1993	Smith v. Printup· Concurrence†	866 P.2d 985	120
2000	State v. Conley	11 P.3d 1147	116
2002	State v. Hitt	42 P.3d 732	98
1994	Jones v. Hansen· Dissent†	867 P.2d 303	93
1998	Brumley v. Lee· Dissent†	963 P.2d 1224	88

Showing the 15 most-cited of 361 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 Frederick N. Six on?: Frederick N. Six was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 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).