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 2003 / Served to 2005

Robert L. Gernon

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Robert L. Gernon was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2003–2005 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Washburn University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gernon authored 32 published opinions for the court (2003–2005). Most cited: Marshall v. Kansas Medical Mutual Insurance Co. (65 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. 2 of these were attributed to Gernon 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
2003	Marshall v. Kansas Medical Mutual Insurance Co.	73 P.3d 120	65
2003	State v. Hunt	69 P.3d 571	62
2004	State v. Rivera	83 P.3d 169	61
2004	State v. McCoin	2004 Kan. LEXIS 727	54
2004	Bruner v. State	88 P.3d 214	54
2004	State v. Abbott	83 P.3d 794	52
2003	Goodman v. Wesley Medical Center, L.L.C.	78 P.3d 817	51
2004	State v. Ly	85 P.3d 1200	50
2004	Estate of Somers v. Firstar Bank	89 P.3d 898	41
2004	State v. Manbeck	83 P.3d 190	40
2005	State v. Harris†	279 Kan. 163	38
2004	Gaudina v. State	92 P.3d 574	38
2003	State v. Kessler	73 P.3d 761	38
2003	Rose v. via Christi Health System, Inc.	78 P.3d 798	32
2003	State v. Hoge	80 P.3d 52	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 32 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 Robert L. Gernon on?: Robert L. Gernon was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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2 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).