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 1975 / Served to 1990

Robert H. Miller

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Robert H. Miller was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–2009
Tenure: 1975–1990 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Kansas
University of Kansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller authored 362 published opinions for the court (1975–1990), plus 26 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Wooderson v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. (146 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. 81 of these were attributed to Miller 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
1984	Wooderson v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.	681 P.2d 1038	146
1976	Malone v. University of Kansas Medical Center	552 P.2d 885	117
1986	State v. Jackson	721 P.2d 232	105
1985	State v. Epperson	703 P.2d 761	102
1979	Modern Air Conditioning, Inc. v. Cinderella Homes, Inc.	596 P.2d 816	98
1987	State Ex Rel. Stephan v. Smith	747 P.2d 816	93
1984	Cansler v. State	675 P.2d 57	92
1982	Gobin v. Globe Publishing Co.	649 P.2d 1239	82
1977	State v. Fisher· Dissent†	563 P.2d 1012	79
1987	Beck v. Kansas Adult Authority	735 P.2d 222	76
1980	Arredondo v. Duckwall Stores, Inc.	610 P.2d 1107	72
1980	State v. Moses	607 P.2d 477	72
1978	Golden v. City of Overland Park	584 P.2d 130	70
1984	Standish v. Department of Revenue	683 P.2d 1276	69
1981	Sheppard v. Sheppard	630 P.2d 1121	69

Showing the 15 most-cited of 401 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 H. Miller on?: Robert H. Miller was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

14 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).