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 2010 / Active

G Gordon Atcheson

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

G Gordon Atcheson is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals (15 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Atcheson authored 33 published opinions for the court (2010–2019), plus 13 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Estate of Belden v. Brown County (149 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 Atcheson 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	Estate of Belden v. Brown County†	261 P.3d 943	149
2019	In Re Interests of M.S.· Concurrence†	447 P.3d 994	102
2013	State v. Hargrove†	48 Kan. App. 2d 522	90
2014	State v. Franco†	49 Kan. App. 2d 924	51
2012	Golden v. Den-Mat Corp.†	276 P.3d 773	47
2014	Bouton v. Byers†	50 Kan. App. 2d 34	44
2011	State v. Schreiner†	264 P.3d 1033	44
2010	In Re the Estate of Heiman†	241 P.3d 161	31
2012	State v. Bellinger· Dissent†	47 Kan. App. 2d 776	26
2013	State v. Acevedo· Dissent†	49 Kan. App. 2d 655	25
2013	Taylor v. Kansas Department of Health & Environment†	49 Kan. App. 2d 233	23
2017	Lindsey Masonry Co. v. Murray & Sons Construction Co.· Concurrence†	53 Kan. App. 2d 505	22
2014	State v. Fernandez-Torres – (†	50 Kan. App. 2d 1069	21
2012	State v. Proctor†	47 Kan. App. 2d 889	21
2017	Griffin v. Bruffett· Concurrence†	53 Kan. App. 2d 589	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 68 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 is G Gordon Atcheson on?: G Gordon Atcheson is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

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16 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).