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 2008 / Active

Melissa Standridge

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

Melissa Standridge is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals (15 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Kansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Standridge authored 98 published opinions for the court (2008–2019), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Dickey (45 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. 72 of these were attributed to Standridge 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
2014	State v. Dickey†	50 Kan. App. 2d 468	45
2016	State v. Herrmann†	53 Kan. App. 2d 147	41
2015	Hooks v. State†	51 Kan. App. 2d 527	34
2011	CHELF v. State	263 P.3d 852	32
2009	In Re the Adoption of B.J.M.†	209 P.3d 200	31
2016	State v. Kraemer†	52 Kan. App. 2d 686	30
2013	State v. J.D.H.†	48 Kan. App. 2d 454	29
2014	State v. Simmons†	50 Kan. App. 2d 448	24
2014	Sanchez Ex Rel. Sanchez v. Unified School District 469†	50 Kan. App. 2d 1185	21
2013	Dana v. Heartland Management Co.†	48 Kan. App. 2d 1048	21
2012	In re the Equalization Appeal of Johnson County Appraiser/Privitera Realty Holdings†	47 Kan. App. 2d 1074	20
2009	State v. Curtis†	209 P.3d 753	19
2012	State v. Gill†	48 Kan. App. 2d 102	17
2012	Brown v. CONOCOPHILLIPS PIPELINE CO.	271 P.3d 1269	14
2009	Cohen v. Battaglia†	202 P.3d 87	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 99 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 Melissa Standridge on?: Melissa Standridge is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Sources

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18 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).