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 1987 / Served to 2010

Jerry G. Elliott

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

Jerry G. Elliott was a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1936 · age 90
Tenure: 1987–2010 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Kansas
University of Kansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Elliott authored 276 published opinions for the court (1988–2009), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: In Re the Marriage of Walje (170 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. 141 of these were attributed to Elliott 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
1994	In Re the Marriage of Walje†	877 P.2d 7	170
2002	Mullins v. State	46 P.3d 1222	57
2002	State v. Frazier	42 P.3d 188	36
1989	State v. Barber	766 P.2d 1288	35
1994	State v. Crowder	20 Kan. App. 2d 117	27
2004	In Re Marriage of Ruth	83 P.3d 1248	25
1994	McDonnell Ex Rel. McDonnell v. Music Stand, Inc.†	20 Kan. App. 2d 287	25
2001	Bankers Trust Co. v. United States	25 P.3d 877	24
1991	Nichols v. Central Merchandise, Inc.†	817 P.2d 1131	24
1995	State v. Alires†	21 Kan. App. 2d 139	23
1991	Bell v. Patrons Mutual Insurance	816 P.2d 407	22
1996	Beebe v. Fraktman	921 P.2d 216	21
1994	Wiggins v. Housing Authority of Kansas City†	873 P.2d 1377	21
1992	Brown v. USAA Casualty Insurance	840 P.2d 1203	21
1988	Riddle v. City of Ottawa	754 P.2d 465	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 281 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 was Jerry G. Elliott on?: Jerry G. Elliott was a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Sources

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23 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).