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

John J. Bukaty Jr.

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

John J. Bukaty Jr. is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals, serving since 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Tenure: Since 1993 · 33 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Regis University
University of Kansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Bukaty authored 29 published opinions for the court (1992–2014), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Anderson v. McKune (76 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. 29 of these were attributed to Bukaty 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
1997	Anderson v. McKune†	937 P.2d 16	76
1992	Marinhagen v. Boster, Inc.	840 P.2d 534	36
2002	City of Hutchinson v. Davenport†	54 P.3d 532	16
2004	State v. Patton· Concurrence†	102 P.3d 1195	14
1995	Bradley v. Board of County Commissioners†	20 Kan. App. 2d 602	11
1999	Foy v. Taylor†	985 P.2d 1172	10
2006	Thomas v. Benchmark Insurance· Concurrence†	36 Kan. App. 2d 409	8
2000	State v. Edwards	9 P.3d 568	8
2012	Heartland Surgical Specialty Hospital, LLC v. Reed†	48 Kan. App. 2d 237	6
2000	Thomas v. Hannigan	6 P.3d 933	6
2008	Frank v. Kansas Department of Agriculture	198 P.3d 195	4
2007	State v. Branson†	167 P.3d 370	4
2007	State v. Storey†	154 P.3d 1148	4
2006	Martin v. Kansas Department of Revenue†	36 Kan. App. 2d 561	4
2004	Griffin v. Gilchrist†	33 Kan. App. 2d 233	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 33 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 John J. Bukaty Jr. on?: John J. Bukaty Jr. is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

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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).