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 1993 / Active

Henry W. Green Jr.

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

Henry W. Green Jr. is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals, serving since 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: Since 1993 · 33 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Kansas State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Green authored 413 published opinions for the court (1993–2019), plus 13 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Washington v. Roberts (58 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. 315 of these were attributed to Green 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
2007	Washington v. Roberts	152 P.3d 660	58
1996	State v. Casto†	912 P.2d 772	55
1994	State v. Tucker· Dissent†	878 P.2d 855	47
1994	Richards v. Bryan	879 P.2d 638	45
2013	Kincaid v. Dess†	48 Kan. App. 2d 640	36
2001	Price v. State	21 P.3d 1021	36
2014	O'Neill v. Herrington†	49 Kan. App. 2d 896	35
2008	In Re the Marriage of Hair· Concurrence†	193 P.3d 504	34
2014	State v. Kurtz†	51 Kan. App. 2d 50	32
2010	M West, Inc. v. Oak Park Mall, L.L.C.	234 P.3d 833	32
2008	Toney v. State†	187 P.3d 122	32
1999	In Re the Marriage of Pierce· Dissent†	982 P.2d 995	32
2009	State v. Beaver†	200 P.3d 490	31
2008	Wichita Clinic, P.A. v. Louis†	185 P.3d 946	30
2008	Chesbro v. Board of County Commissioners†	186 P.3d 829	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 432 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 Henry W. Green Jr. on?: Henry W. Green Jr. is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Sources

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33 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).