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 1935 / Served to 1955

Harry T. Wedell

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Harry T. Wedell was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1890–1975
Tenure: 1935–1955 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Kansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Wedell authored 631 published opinions for the court (1935–1955), plus 16 dissents and 45 concurrences. Most cited: Rowell v. City of Wichita (105 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. 548 of these were attributed to Wedell 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
1947	Rowell v. City of Wichita· Concurrence†	162 Kan. 294	105
1953	Nichols v. Nold· Concurrence†	258 P.2d 317	77
1948	Miller v. Hudspeth†	164 Kan. 688	70
1936	Hill v. Southern Kansas Stage Lines Co.†	143 Kan. 44	59
1940	Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. v. Matlock†	151 Kan. 293	58
1936	Nelson v. Schippel†	143 Kan. 546	58
1941	Myers v. Shell Petroleum Corp.†	153 Kan. 287	55
1949	State ex rel. Fatzer v. Board of Regents†	167 Kan. 587	54
1951	Will v. Hughes	238 P.2d 478	53
1942	Foss v. Wiles†	155 Kan. 262	53
1943	Motor Equipment Co. v. McLaughlin†	156 Kan. 258	51
1939	Hunt v. Eddy†	150 Kan. 1	51
1938	Mendel v. Fort Scott Hydraulic Cement Co.†	147 Kan. 719	51
1950	Foltz v. Struxness	215 P.2d 133	49
1944	Ellis v. Kroger Grocery & Baking Co.†	159 Kan. 213	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 692 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 Harry T. Wedell on?: Harry T. Wedell was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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19 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).