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 1990 / Active

Joseph Pierron

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

Joseph Pierron is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals, serving since 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: Since 1990 · 36 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pierron authored 400 published opinions for the court (1991–2019), plus 9 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Patterson (57 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. 243 of these were attributed to Pierron 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
1998	State v. Patterson	963 P.2d 436	57
1995	Kastner v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Kansas, Inc.†	21 Kan. App. 2d 16	43
1996	Ryco Packaging Corp. v. Chapelle International, Ltd.	926 P.2d 669	39
1995	Grimmett v. Burke	21 Kan. App. 2d 638	33
1996	In Re the Marriage of Patterson	920 P.2d 450	31
1998	In re H.A.M.†	25 Kan. App. 2d 289	29
1998	Gentzel v. Williams†	965 P.2d 855	28
1997	Copeland v. Johnson Group, Inc.†	944 P.2d 179	27
1995	In re the Adoption of C.R.D.†	21 Kan. App. 2d 94	25
1995	Golconda Screw, Inc. v. West Bottoms Ltd.	20 Kan. App. 2d 1002	24
2002	State v. Hartpence	42 P.3d 1197	23
1997	State v. Jones†	947 P.2d 1030	23
2009	State v. Bowers†	216 P.3d 715	22
1998	State v. Naramore	965 P.2d 211	22
1999	State v. Bourassa	15 P.3d 835	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 412 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 Joseph Pierron on?: Joseph Pierron is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Sources

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36 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).