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 2005 / Active

Michael Buser

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

Michael Buser is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals, serving since 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Buser authored 79 published opinions for the court (2005–2019), plus 8 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: In Re the Marriage of Vandenberg (61 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. 71 of these were attributed to Buser 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
2010	In Re the Marriage of Vandenberg†	229 P.3d 1187	61
2006	State v. Chambers†	36 Kan. App. 2d 228	35
2005	In Re the Estate of Broderick†	34 Kan. App. 2d 695	30
2016	State v. Wallin†	52 Kan. App. 2d 256	29
2008	Droge v. Rempel†	180 P.3d 1094	27
2014	State v. Theurer†	50 Kan. App. 2d 1203	23
2012	State v. Unrein†	274 P.3d 691	18
2011	Katz v. Kansas Department of Revenue	256 P.3d 876	18
2013	State v. Beltran· Concurrence†	48 Kan. App. 2d 857	17
2008	State v. Toney†	187 P.3d 138	16
2011	Crone v. Nuss	263 P.3d 809	15
2009	Berry v. National Medical Services, Inc.· Concurrence†	205 P.3d 745	15
2006	In Re the Care & Treatment of Ward†	35 Kan. App. 2d 356	15
2008	State v. Coburn· Concurrence†	38 Kan. App. 2d 1036	14
2005	In re the Marriage of Kimbrell· Dissent†	34 Kan. App. 2d 413	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 93 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 Michael Buser on?: Michael Buser is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Sources

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21 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).