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 1988 / Active

Gary Rulon

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

Gary Rulon is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals, serving since 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1988 · 38 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rulon authored 340 published opinions for the court (1986–2010), plus 1 dissent and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Foulk v. Colonial Terrace (133 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. 180 of these were attributed to Rulon 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
1994	Foulk v. Colonial Terrace†	20 Kan. App. 2d 277	133
1988	Hutchinson National Bank & Trust Co. v. Brown†	753 P.2d 1299	102
2009	In the Interest of S.D.†	41 Kan. App. 2d 780	88
1990	Pilcher v. Board of Wyandotte County Comm'rs	787 P.2d 1204	50
1994	Berry v. Boeing Military Airplanes	20 Kan. App. 2d 220	41
2006	State v. Barahona†	35 Kan. App. 2d 605	40
2005	State v. Singleton†	104 P.3d 424	39
2004	Woodberry v. State	101 P.3d 727	34
1994	State v. Starks†	20 Kan. App. 2d 179	34
2007	State v. Dumars†	154 P.3d 1120	33
2008	Silvers v. State	173 P.3d 1167	32
2009	In the Interest of L.B.†	42 Kan. App. 2d 837	31
2006	Perkins v. Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital†	146 P.3d 1102	31
1997	DeSpiegelaere v. Killion	947 P.2d 1039	31
1989	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Cummings	778 P.2d 370	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 343 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 Gary Rulon on?: Gary Rulon is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Sources

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38 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).