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 2003 / Active

Stephen D. Hill

Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals

Stephen D. Hill is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1950 · age 76
Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Kansas Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Kansas

Judicial Record

In our data, Hill authored 200 published opinions for the court (1986–2019), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: State v. Huckey (132 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. 151 of these were attributed to Hill 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
2015	State v. Huckey†	51 Kan. App. 2d 451	132
2015	State v. McFeeters†	52 Kan. App. 2d 45	120
2007	Ludlow v. State†	157 P.3d 631	45
2006	State v. Gonzales†	36 Kan. App. 2d 446	40
2008	Hickson v. State†	182 P.3d 1269	32
2008	Diederich v. Yarnevich†	196 P.3d 411	27
2004	State v. Larraco†	32 Kan. App. 2d 996	27
2015	In Re the Marriage of Skoczek†	51 Kan. App. 2d 606	26
2014	City of Neodesha v. BP Corp. North America, Inc.†	50 Kan. App. 2d 731	25
2005	In re S.M.H.†	33 Kan. App. 2d 424	25
2010	Westar Energy, Inc. v. Wittig†	235 P.3d 515	23
2017	Lindsey Masonry Co. v. Murray & Sons Construction Co.†	53 Kan. App. 2d 505	22
2014	State v. Cato-Perry†	50 Kan. App. 2d 623	20
2015	State v. McGill†	51 Kan. App. 2d 92	18
2007	Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. v. Coleman Co., Inc.	161 P.3d 765	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 201 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 is Stephen D. Hill on?: Stephen D. Hill is a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals.

Sources

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23 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).