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 2011 / Served to 2014

Nancy Moritz

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Nancy Moritz was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2011–2014 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Washburn University
Washburn University

Judicial Record

In our data, Moritz authored 64 published opinions for the court (2011–2014), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Northern Natural Gas Co. v. ONEOK Field Services Co. (456 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. 63 of these were attributed to Moritz 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
2013	Northern Natural Gas Co. v. ONEOK Field Services Co.†	296 Kan. 906	456
2012	State v. Rojas-Marceleno†	295 Kan. 525	229
2014	State v. Soto†	299 Kan. 102	135
2014	State v. Carr· Concurrence†	300 Kan. 1	125
2012	State v. Robinson†	293 Kan. 1002	99
2014	State v. Brooks· Dissent†	298 Kan. 672	92
2013	State v. Adams†	297 Kan. 665	82
2012	Ryser v. State†	295 Kan. 452	70
2013	State v. Novotny†	297 Kan. 1174	68
2014	Prairie Land Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, Inc.†	299 Kan. 360	66
2013	State v. Bird†	298 Kan. 393	64
2013	State v. Hurd†	298 Kan. 555	56
2014	State v. Clay†	300 Kan. 401	55
2012	State v. Sprung	277 P.3d 1100	54
2013	State v. Sampson†	297 Kan. 288	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 71 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 Nancy Moritz on?: Nancy Moritz was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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3 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).