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 1965 / Served to 1977

Robert H. Kaul

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Robert H. Kaul was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1912–2000
Tenure: 1965–1977 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Kansas
University of Kansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Kaul authored 337 published opinions for the court (1965–1979), plus 20 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Henry Ex Rel. Henry v. Bauder (163 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. 72 of these were attributed to Kaul 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
1974	Henry Ex Rel. Henry v. Bauder· Dissent†	518 P.2d 362	163
1976	Johnson v. National Beef Packing Co.	551 P.2d 779	143
1977	Lightcap v. Mobil Oil Corporation· Concurrence†	562 P.2d 1	96
1975	Brown v. Wichita State University· Dissent†	540 P.2d 66	90
1977	State v. Childers	563 P.2d 999	81
1971	Hecht v. First National Bank & Trust Co.	490 P.2d 649	76
1977	State v. Henson	562 P.2d 51	73
1976	State v. Goodseal· Concurrence†	553 P.2d 279	70
1976	Highland Lumber Co., Inc. v. Knudson	548 P.2d 719	62
1977	Easom v. Farmers Insurance Co.	560 P.2d 117	60
1976	State v. Steward	547 P.2d 773	56
1973	Forrester Ex Rel. Forrester v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	517 P.2d 173	56
1968	State v. Lekas· Dissent†	442 P.2d 11	55
1974	Apperson v. Security State Bank	528 P.2d 1211	52
1974	State v. Ritson	529 P.2d 90	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 365 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. Kaul on?: Robert H. Kaul was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

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11 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).