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 1939 / Served to 1949

Homer Hoch

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Homer Hoch was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (7 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1939. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1879–1949
Tenure: 1939–1949 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1939	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Baker University
Washburn University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hoch authored 258 published opinions for the court (1939–1948), plus 17 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Lowry (60 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. 288 of these were attributed to Hoch 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	State v. Lowry†	163 Kan. 622	60
1944	City of New York Insurance v. Tice†	159 Kan. 176	53
1939	Hunt v. Eddy· Concurrence†	150 Kan. 1	51
1946	Duncan v. Perry Packing Co.· Dissent†	162 Kan. 79	43
1946	Hoffman v. Cudahy Packing Co.†	161 Kan. 345	40
1942	Yeager v. Yeager†	155 Kan. 734	40
1945	Bailey v. Mosby Hotel Co.†	160 Kan. 258	39
1942	State v. Waite†	156 Kan. 143	39
1943	Burns v. Drake†	157 Kan. 367	36
1948	Srajer v. Schwartzman†	164 Kan. 241	35
1944	Board of County Commissioners v. Alden†	158 Kan. 487	33
1945	Moore v. Smith†	160 Kan. 167	32
1944	Gustafson v. Bowling· Dissent†	158 Kan. 345	32
1939	Chamberlain v. Bowersock Mills & Power Co.†	150 Kan. 934	32
1941	McKee v. McKee†	154 Kan. 340	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 291 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 Homer Hoch on?: Homer Hoch was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).