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 1964 / Served to 1975

John F. Fontron

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

John F. Fontron was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1964. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1982
Tenure: 1964–1975 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1964	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fontron authored 320 published opinions for the court (1964–1975), plus 44 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Pierce v. Board of County Commissioners (127 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. 96 of these were attributed to Fontron 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
1967	Pierce v. Board of County Commissioners	434 P.2d 858	127
1975	Brown v. Wichita State University· Dissent†	540 P.2d 66	90
1974	Steele v. Latimer	521 P.2d 304	68
1967	State v. Taylor	424 P.2d 612	65
1965	State v. Richardson· Dissent†	399 P.2d 799	65
1971	Gowing v. Great Plains Mutual Insurance	483 P.2d 1072	62
1971	Gilley Ex Rel. Gilley v. Farmer	485 P.2d 1284	61
1965	Brock v. State Highway Commission· Concurrence†	404 P.2d 934	61
1967	State v. Hart	434 P.2d 999	60
1972	State v. Otero	502 P.2d 763	57
1966	Cooper v. State	411 P.2d 652	56
1973	Guardianship of the Person & Estate of Smith v. Merchants Mutual Bonding Co.	507 P.2d 189	55
1967	Collins v. Meeker	424 P.2d 488	53
1967	Price, Administrator v. Holmes	422 P.2d 976	53
1973	State v. Randol· Dissent†	513 P.2d 248	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 384 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 John F. Fontron on?: John F. Fontron was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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11 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).