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 1985 / Served to 2014

Patrick Brazil

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

Patrick Brazil was a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–2014 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brazil authored 17 published opinions for the court (2002–2012), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Inkelaar (136 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. 11 of these were attributed to Brazil 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
2007	State v. Inkelaar†	164 P.3d 844	136
2012	Foster v. Stonebridge Life Ins. Co.†	50 Kan. App. 2d 1	19
2002	State v. Shumway	50 P.3d 89	19
2002	Harms v. Burt	40 P.3d 329	15
2006	McLellan v. Raines†	36 Kan. App. 2d 1	13
2003	Cook v. Cook	83 P.3d 1243	12
2002	In Re the Marriage of Kopac	47 P.3d 425	7
2002	Allied Mutual Insurance v. Moeder	48 P.3d 1	7
2002	State v. Musick	38 P.3d 144	6
2010	State v. Burns· Concurrence†	238 P.3d 288	5
2002	Bunnell Farms Co. v. Samuel Gary, Jr. & Associates	47 P.3d 804	5
2008	State v. Wilson†	200 P.3d 1283	3
2006	Hammer v. Thompson†	35 Kan. App. 2d 165	3
2011	Three Kings Holdings, L.L.C. v. Six†	45 Kan. App. 2d 1043	1
2004	Cobb v. Corbett†	32 Kan. App. 2d 1184	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 18 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 was Patrick Brazil on?: Patrick Brazil was a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

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29 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).