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 1945 / Served to 1956

Lloyd W. Harvey

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Lloyd W. Harvey was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1918 · age 108
Tenure: 1945–1956 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Harvey authored 300 published opinions for the court (1946–1956), plus 10 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Nichols v. Nold (77 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. 177 of these were attributed to Harvey 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
1953	Nichols v. Nold	258 P.2d 317	77
1949	Lawrence v. Kansas Power & Light Co.†	167 Kan. 45	38
1950	Waterbury v. Riss & Company	219 P.2d 673	33
1954	State Ex Rel. Hawks v. City of Topeka· Dissent†	270 P.2d 270	32
1949	State v. Nichols†	167 Kan. 565	32
1947	State ex rel. Mitchell v. State Highway Commission· Concurrence†	163 Kan. 187	30
1949	State ex rel. Emery v. Knapp†	167 Kan. 546	27
1946	Horton v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.· Dissent†	161 Kan. 403	27
1950	Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Co. v. State Corp. Commission	222 P.2d 704	25
1950	Estates of Wright v. Pizel	214 P.2d 328	25
1951	Moseley v. City of Kansas City	228 P.2d 699	24
1950	Davison v. Martin K. Eby Construction Co.	218 P.2d 219	23
1947	Holland v. Shaffer· Dissent†	162 Kan. 474	23
1955	Riddle Quarries, Inc. v. Thompson	279 P.2d 266	21
1952	Sink v. Sink	239 P.2d 933	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 317 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 Lloyd W. Harvey on?: Lloyd W. Harvey was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

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10 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).