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 1943 / Served to 1966

Jay S. Parker

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Jay S. Parker was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1895–1969
Tenure: 1943–1966 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Parker authored 681 published opinions for the court (1943–1966), plus 8 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Natanson v. Kline (111 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. 283 of these were attributed to Parker 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
1960	Natanson v. Kline· Dissent†	354 P.2d 670	111
1948	Wilson v. Holm†	164 Kan. 229	65
1962	Kendall Plumbing, Inc. v. St. Paul Mercury Insurance	370 P.2d 396	61
1958	Kendrick v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad· Dissent†	320 P.2d 1061	59
1943	Egnatic ex rel. Egnatic v. Wollard†	156 Kan. 843	57
1961	Voss Ex Rel. Voss v. Bridwell· Dissent†	364 P.2d 955	54
1951	Lessley v. Kansas Power & Light Co.	231 P.2d 239	54
1954	Graham v. Bottenfield's, Inc.	269 P.2d 413	52
1954	Anderson v. Rexroad	266 P.2d 320	49
1943	Holler v. W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Co.†	157 Kan. 355	49
1951	State v. Osburn	232 P.2d 451	48
1951	Fenly v. Revell	228 P.2d 905	48
1951	Braly v. Commercial Casualty Insurance	227 P.2d 571	47
1943	Reed v. Miller†	157 Kan. 602	47
1943	Sams v. Commercial Standard Insurance†	157 Kan. 278	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 698 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 Jay S. Parker on?: Jay S. Parker was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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23 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).