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 2004 / Active

Patrick Mcanany

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

Patrick Mcanany is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals, serving since 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Rockhurst University

Judicial Record

In our data, Mcanany authored 160 published opinions for the court (2000–2019), plus 4 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Merrills (53 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. 141 of these were attributed to Mcanany 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. Merrills	149 P.3d 869	53
2015	Evergreen Recycle, L.L.C. v. Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Co.†	51 Kan. App. 2d 459	32
2007	Wentland v. Uhlarik†	159 P.3d 1035	32
2007	State v. Ross	149 P.3d 876	30
2014	Romkes v. University of Kansas†	49 Kan. App. 2d 871	28
2004	Nickelson v. Kansas Department of Revenue	102 P.3d 490	25
2008	Buchanan v. Overley†	178 P.3d 53	24
2007	State v. Meza†	165 P.3d 298	24
2005	State v. Huff	111 P.3d 659	22
2012	Dunn v. Dunn†	47 Kan. App. 2d 619	20
2014	Nam Le v. Armour Eckrich Meats†	52 Kan. App. 2d 189	19
2009	State v. Williams†	216 P.3d 707	18
2009	State v. Pruitt· Concurrence†	211 P.3d 166	18
2013	U.S. Bank National Ass'n v. McConnell†	48 Kan. App. 2d 892	17
2008	Boyd v. Werholtz†	203 P.3d 1	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 172 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 Patrick Mcanany on?: Patrick Mcanany is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Sources

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22 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).