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 1979 / Served to 1993

Harold Herd

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Harold Herd was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–2007
Tenure: 1979–1993 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Washburn University
Washburn University

Judicial Record

In our data, Herd authored 372 published opinions for the court (1979–1993), plus 56 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Morriss v. Coleman Co. (192 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. 119 of these were attributed to Herd 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
1987	Morriss v. Coleman Co.· Concurrence†	738 P.2d 841	192
1988	Palmer v. Brown	752 P.2d 685	174
1991	Bair v. Peck· Dissent†	811 P.2d 1176	152
1990	Samsel v. Wheeler Transport Services, Inc.· Dissent†	789 P.2d 541	130
1992	Boatright v. Kansas Racing Commission	834 P.2d 368	125
1988	Bacon v. Mercy Hosp. of Ft. Scott	756 P.2d 416	120
1980	Nordstrom v. Miller	605 P.2d 545	119
1987	Farley v. Engelken	740 P.2d 1058	118
1982	State v. Marks	647 P.2d 1292	117
1982	Schmeck v. City of Shawnee	651 P.2d 585	113
1992	Harding v. K.C. Wall Products, Inc.	831 P.2d 958	109
1986	Fudge v. City of Kansas City	720 P.2d 1093	100
1989	Leiker Ex Rel. Leiker v. Gafford· Concurrence†	778 P.2d 823	98
1984	Stoldt v. City of Toronto	678 P.2d 153	97
1992	Simon v. National Farmers Organization, Inc.· Dissent†	829 P.2d 884	94

Showing the 15 most-cited of 446 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 Harold Herd on?: Harold Herd was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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13 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).