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 2003 / Active

Richard D. Greene

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

Richard D. Greene is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1950–2012
Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Missouri-Columbia

Judicial Record

In our data, Greene authored 175 published opinions for the court (2003–2012), plus 13 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: In the Interest of K.P. (85 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. 145 of these were attributed to Greene 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 the Interest of K.P.†	44 Kan. App. 2d 316	85
2010	In The Interest Of K.R.†	43 Kan. App. 2d 891	81
2008	In Re the Estate of Lane· Concurrence†	188 P.3d 23	34
2012	In Re the Equalization Appeal of Prieb Properties, L.L.C.†	275 P.3d 56	32
2011	In Re the Care & Treatment of Twilleger· Concurrence†	263 P.3d 199	32
2004	Southwest & Associates, Inc. v. Steven Enterprises, LLC†	32 Kan. App. 2d 778	27
2004	State v. Kackley†	92 P.3d 1128	25
2012	State v. Dugan	276 P.3d 819	24
2008	Buchanan v. Overley· Dissent†	178 P.3d 53	24
2007	Gates v. Goodyear	155 P.3d 1196	21
2006	Wenrich v. Employers Mutual Insurance Companies†	35 Kan. App. 2d 582	21
2005	State v. Smith†	34 Kan. App. 2d 368	20
2008	State v. Huntley†	177 P.3d 1001	19
2011	Lightner v. Lightner†	46 Kan. App. 2d 540	18
2011	Swafford v. McKune· Dissent†	263 P.3d 791	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 199 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 Richard D. Greene on?: Richard D. Greene is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

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23 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).