Who appointed John Watson Lungstrum?

President George H.W. Bush appointed John Watson Lungstrum to the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas in 1991.

Was John Watson Lungstrum appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

John Watson Lungstrum was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was John Watson Lungstrum's confirmation vote?

John Watson Lungstrum was confirmed by voice vote on October 31, 1991. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

District of Kansas / Appointed 1991 / Senior status since 2010

John Watson Lungstrum

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

Appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1991 and confirmed by voice vote, John Watson Lungstrum is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. He earned a law degree from University of Kansas School of Law in 1970. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Appointed by: George H.W. Bush, 1991
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Yale 1967 · University of Kansas Law 1970
Succeeded: Dale Emerson Saffels
Succeeded by: Daniel Dale Crabtree

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	District of Kansas succeeded Dale Emerson Saffels	G.H.W. Bush (R)	Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

Yale University	B.A.	1967
University of Kansas School of Law	J.D.	1970

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Lungstrum was assigned 7,181 district-court cases (1987–2026). Median time from filing to termination: 141 days across 6,681 closed cases.

Property torts23%

Other civil matters19%

Civil rights12%

Contract9%

Personal-injury torts8%

Prisoner & habeas8%

Other21%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

On appeal

Of 192 of Lungstrum’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 174 were affirmed, 9 reversed or vacated, and 9 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Lungstrum authored 590 published opinions for the court (1991–2011). Most cited: Oltremari Ex Rel. McDaniel v. Kansas Social & Rehabilitative Service (96 citations).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1994	Oltremari Ex Rel. McDaniel v. Kansas Social & Rehabilitative Service	871 F. Supp. 1331	96
2008	C.T. v. Liberal School District	562 F. Supp. 2d 1324	67
1993	Jensen v. Johnson County Youth Baseball League	838 F. Supp. 1437	59
1995	Burton v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.	884 F. Supp. 1515	51
2003	In Re Universal Service Fund Telephone Billing Practices Litigation	300 F. Supp. 2d 1107	48
1998	Thiessen v. General Electric Capital Corp.	996 F. Supp. 1071	45
2005	Theno v. Tonganoxie Unified School District No. 464	377 F. Supp. 2d 952	42
1997	Bushnell Corp. v. ITT Corp.	973 F. Supp. 1276	42
1995	Cessna Aircraft Co. v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.	900 F. Supp. 1489	38
2002	Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. Hartford Casualty Insurance	189 F. Supp. 2d 1212	36
1995	Ricks v. Xerox Corp.	877 F. Supp. 1468	36
2004	In Re Sprint Corp. ERISA Litigation	388 F. Supp. 2d 1207	34
1995	Atchison Casting Corp. v. Dofasco, Inc.	889 F. Supp. 1445	33
2001	Sink v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	147 F. Supp. 2d 1085	30
1995	Schweitzer-Reschke v. Avnet, Inc.	874 F. Supp. 1187	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 590 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

Who appointed John Watson Lungstrum?: President George H.W. Bush appointed John Watson Lungstrum to the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas in 1991.
Was John Watson Lungstrum appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: John Watson Lungstrum was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was John Watson Lungstrum's confirmation vote?: John Watson Lungstrum was confirmed by voice vote on October 31, 1991. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court is John Watson Lungstrum on?: John Watson Lungstrum is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.

Sources

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34 years on the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).