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 2011 / Active

Karen Arnold-Burger

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

Karen Arnold-Burger is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals (15 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Kansas
University of Kansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Arnold-Burger authored 41 published opinions for the court (2011–2019), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Meyer (195 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. 45 of these were attributed to Arnold-Burger 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
2015	State v. Meyer†	51 Kan. App. 2d 1066	195
2016	Woods v. State†	52 Kan. App. 2d 958	42
2016	State v. Allen†	52 Kan. App. 2d 729	39
2019	State v. Duran†	445 P.3d 761	37
2015	State v. Mburu†	51 Kan. App. 2d 266	26
2018	State v. Messner†	419 P.3d 642	22
2017	Griffin v. Bruffett†	53 Kan. App. 2d 589	18
2014	Verge v. State†	50 Kan. App. 2d 591	15
2011	State v. Smith· Concurrence†	268 P.3d 1206	11
2017	Kloster v. Hancock (In Re Rockhill Pain Specialists, P.A.)†	412 P.3d 1008	10
2017	State v. Hambright†	53 Kan. App. 2d 355	9
2015	State v. Heironimus†	51 Kan. App. 2d 841	9
2019	Community First Nat'l Bank v. Nichols†	443 P.3d 322	8
2018	Kerry G. v. Stacy C.†	411 P.3d 1227	8
2017	Glaze v. J.K. Williams, LLC†	53 Kan. App. 2d 712	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 45 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 Karen Arnold-Burger on?: Karen Arnold-Burger is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

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15 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).