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 1977 / Served to 1985

J Richard Foth

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

J Richard Foth was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1925 · age 101
Tenure: 1977–1985 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Foth authored 146 published opinions for the court (1971–1977). Most cited: State v. Buggs (242 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. 1 of these was attributed to Foth 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
1976	State v. Buggs	547 P.2d 720	242
1976	Jones v. Hittle Service, Inc.	549 P.2d 1383	92
1975	State v. Gregory	542 P.2d 1051	78
1975	Kansas Commission on Civil Rights v. Howard	544 P.2d 791	67
1972	Hampton v. State Highway Commission	498 P.2d 236	64
1973	State v. Brunner	507 P.2d 233	61
1976	Brooks v. Dietz	545 P.2d 1104	59
1975	State v. Pyle	532 P.2d 1309	57
1974	Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance v. Carr	528 P.2d 134	57
1975	State v. Taylor	538 P.2d 1375	56
1974	Montez v. Tonkawa Village Apartments	523 P.2d 351	55
1973	National Education Ass'n of Shawnee Mission, Inc. v. Board of Education	512 P.2d 426	53
1973	Paul v. City of Manhattan	511 P.2d 244	52
1975	Olathe Hospital Foundation, Inc. v. Extendicare, Inc.	539 P.2d 1	50
1973	State v. Seely	510 P.2d 115	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 146 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 J Richard Foth on?: J Richard Foth was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 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).