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 1958 / Served to 1964

Schuyler W. Jackson

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court

Schuyler W. Jackson was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1904–1964
Tenure: 1958–1964 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	Kansas Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Washburn University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Jackson authored 177 published opinions for the court (1958–1963), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. State Corp. Commission (81 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. 56 of these were attributed to Jackson 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
1963	Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. State Corp. Commission	386 P.2d 515	81
1959	Riddle v. State Highway Commission· Concurrence†	339 P.2d 301	53
1960	State v. Andrews	357 P.2d 739	48
1958	Steele v. Rapp· Concurrence†	327 P.2d 1053	38
1958	Ziegelasch v. Durr	326 P.2d 295	32
1959	Jenkins v. McCormick	339 P.2d 8	31
1962	In Re Estate of Foster	376 P.2d 784	24
1958	Ogilvie v. Mangels	332 P.2d 581	24
1961	A. C. Ferrellgas Corp. v. Phoenix Insurance	358 P.2d 786	22
1959	State Ex Rel. Anderson v. Fleming Co.	339 P.2d 12	19
1962	Carp v. Board of County Commissioners	373 P.2d 153	18
1960	North River Insurance v. Aetna Finance Co.	352 P.2d 1060	18
1960	Johnson, Administrator v. Huskey	350 P.2d 14	18
1960	Backman v. Vickers Petroleum Co.	357 P.2d 748	17
1959	Prowant, Administratrix v. KINGS-X	337 P.2d 1021	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 184 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 Schuyler W. Jackson on?: Schuyler W. Jackson was a Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Sources

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5 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).