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 1988 / Served to 2003

Robert L. Gernon

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

Robert L. Gernon was a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1943–2005
Tenure: 1988–2003 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Washburn University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gernon authored 233 published opinions for the court (1986–2003), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Morrison v. Watkins (58 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. 115 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
1995	Morrison v. Watkins	20 Kan. App. 2d 411	58
2003	Gilkey v. State	60 P.3d 351	43
1993	Lindemuth v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.†	864 P.2d 744	40
1996	Bates v. Hogg†	921 P.2d 249	36
1999	Butler Ex Rel. Commerce Bank, N.A. v. HCA Health Services of Kansas, Inc.	6 P.3d 871	30
1999	Baugh v. Baugh Ex Rel. Smith	973 P.2d 202	26
1991	City of Ottawa v. Lester†	822 P.2d 72	25
1996	Pink Cadillac Bar & Grill, Inc. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.	925 P.2d 452	24
1991	Cox v. State	819 P.2d 1241	24
1992	Gruhin v. City of Overland Park	836 P.2d 1222	23
1992	In the Interest of M.D.S.†	16 Kan. App. 2d 505	23
2002	Darnell v. Simmons	48 P.3d 1278	21
2000	In Re Equalization Appeal of Ottawa Housing Ass'n, Lp†	10 P.3d 777	21
2000	State v. Maybin	2 P.3d 179	21
1995	Armstrong v. City of Wichita	21 Kan. App. 2d 750	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 237 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 was Robert L. Gernon on?: Robert L. Gernon was a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Sources

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15 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).