Honorable Robert E. Davis
Chief Justice 2009 - Present
Justice, Kansas Supreme Court 1993 - 2009

Robert E. Davis was born August 28, 1939, in Topeka, Kansas. He was graduated from Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and received his law degree from Georgetown University Law School, Washington D.C. in 1964. He engaged in private practice in Leavenworth from 1967 to 1984 when he was appointed associate district judge. While in private practice he served as Leavenworth County attorney from 1981 to 1984, and as an attorney for the State Board of Pharmacy from 1972 to 1984. Justice Davis also served as a magistrate judge in Leavenworth County from 1969 to 1976. After serving as an associate district judge for two years, Justice Davis was appointed to the Kansas Court of Appeals in 1986. He served in that capacity until his appointment to the Supreme Court.

A member of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, Justice Davis served as trial counsel in the Republic of Korea and as government appellate counsel in Washington D.C. from 1964- 1967. Memberships include the Governor's Advisory Commission on Alcoholism from 1971-76, St. John Hospital, Leavenworth, Board of Trustees (chairman, 1980 to 1984), Leavenworth County Community Corrections Board (director and president, 1980-84), Leavenworth National Bank and Trust Co. (general counsel and board of directors, 1972- 1984), Leavenworth Historical Society (director, 1970-75), and St. Mary College, Leavenworth, (council member 1984). He also has been the Supreme Court's liaison for Alternate Dispute Resolution (1993) and Kansas Lawyer Specialization (1993), a member of the Kansas Department of Corrections Task Force on Female Offenders (1990), and a member and officer of the American Inns of Court since 1992. He presently is a member of the Governor's Adoption Reform Task Force.

Opinions (those available online) delivered by Justice Davis:

• 72720 -- State v. Mader
• 74361 -- State v . Scales
• 74760 -- State v. Clemons
• 75258 -- State v. Thompkins (dissent)
• 75375 -- State v. Lewis
• 75518 -- State v. Vega-Fuentes
• 75674 -- Farm Bur. Mut. Ins. Co. v. Kurtenbach
• 75703 -- Nance v. Harvey County
• 76025 -- Smith v. Printup
• 76037 -- State v. Griffin
• 76092 -- State v. Chastain
• 76192 -- Brumley v. Lee (dissent)
• 76573 -- Hamilton v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co.
• 76915 -- State v. McGinnes
• 77008 -- State v. Speed
• 77041 -- State v. Barksdale
• 77538 -- State v. Heath
• 77566 -- City of Overland Park v. Povirk
• 77640 -- State v. Unruh
• 77660 -- State v. Clark
• 77686 -- Mitchell v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.
• 77951 -- State v. Carr
• 77966 -- State v. Edwards
• 78055 -- Miami County v. Svoboda
• 78074 -- Brock v. Richmond-Berea Cemetery Dist.
• 78370 -- State v. Wilkins
• 78381 -- State v. Thomas
• 78432 -- State v. Carter (dissent)
• 78476 -- State v. McCorkendale
• 78601 -- Pouncil v. Kansas Employment Security Board of Review (dissenting)
• 78661 -- Marquis v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co.
• 78721 -- State v. Parks
• 79018 -- State v. Cravatt
• 79121 -- State v. Ippert
• 79140 -- Cullip v. Domann
• 79214 -- State v. McCown
• 79384 -- Stansbury v. Hannigan
• 79440 -- State v. Becker
• 79453 -- Bergstrom v. Noah
• 79509 -- State v. Wilson (dissenting)
• 79531 -- Bergstrom v. Noah
• 79533 -- Legislative Coordinating Council v. Stanley
• 79672 -- In re Tax Appeal of Univ. of Kan. School of Medicine
• 79678 -- In re Care & Treatment of Ingram
• 79734 -- Vinson v. McKune
• 79833 -- Frazier v. Mid-West Painting, Inc.
• 79948 -- State v. Garcia
• 79979 -- Reifschneider v. Kansas State Lottery
• 79986 -- State v. Bell
• 80057 -- State v. Willingham
• 80068 -- Ray v. Caudill
• 80215 -- Board of Marshall County Comm'rs v. Lincoln Township (dissent)
• 80228 -- State v. Harris
• 80259 -- State v. Cockerham
• 80418 -- Smith v. Farha
• 80459 -- State v. Davis
• 80543 -- State v. Mixon
• 80588 -- State v. Rodriguez-Garcia
• 80764 -- State v. Love
• 80877 -- State v. Little
• 80881 -- State v. Wilkins
• 80936 -- State v. Davis
• 81046 -- American Trust Administrators, Inc. v. Sebelius
• 81135 -- State v. Marsh (dissenting)
• 81171 -- State v. Lewis
• 81253 -- Dimension Graphics, Inc. v. Liebowitz
• 81319 -- Heiland v. Dunnick
• 81366 -- Lujan v. State
• 81374 -- State v. Slater
• 81478 -- In re R.L.C.
• 81586 -- State v. Coyote
• 81644 -- State v. Jamison
• 81679 -- State v. Chavez
• 81771 -- Seaton v. State
• 81826 -- Wood v. Groh
• 81953 -- State v. Finley
• 81959 -- State v. Simkins
• 81992 -- NEA-Coffeyville v. U.S.D. No. 445
• 82095 -- Hartford Cas. Co. v. Credit Union 1 of Kansas
• 82200 -- Bain v. Cormack Enterprises, Inc.
• 82217 -- State v. Martinez (concurs)
• 82266 -- Danisco Ingredients USA, Inc. v. Kansas City Power & Light Co.
• 82291 -- Abbott v. Kansas Board of Examiners in Optometry (dissent)
• 82298 -- Solis v. Brookover Ranch Feedyard, Inc.
• 82411 -- State v. Moore
• 82526 -- State v. Calderon (concur)
• 82630 -- Delaney v. Deere and Co.
• 82647 -- State v. Sophophone (dissent)
• 82658 -- Kansas Enterprises, Inc. v. Frantz
• 82784 -- In re Ketter
• 83019 -- State v. Baker
• 83161 -- Boyles v. City of Topeka (dissent)
• 83172 -- State v. Hines
• 83217 -- State v. McKinney
• 83288 -- In re Appeal of Colorado Interstate Gas Co.
• 83604 -- Alexander v. Certified Master Builders Corp.
• 83423 -- In re Tax Appeal of Barton-Dobenin
• 83452 -- State v. Murphy (dissent)
• 83611 -- State v. McKay
• 83679 -- State v. Bolen
• 83739 -- Robinett v. The Haskell Co.
• 83801 -- State v. Scott
• 83919 -- City of Wichita, Kansas v. Eisenring
• 83972 -- Reifschneider v. Kansas State Lottery (dissenting)
• 84112 -- State v. Betts
• 84269 -- State v. Banks
• 84519 -- Leavenworth Plaza Assocs. L.P., v. L.A.G. Enterprises
• 84615 -- State v. Wimbley
• 84813 -- State v. Higgenbotham
• 84835 -- Mitchell v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.
• 85052 -- Colorado Interstate Gas Co. v. Beshears
• 85096 -- State v. Davis
• 85228 -- State v. Jones
• 85471 -- In re Care and Treatment of Saathoff
• 85709 -- State v. Finley
• 85953 -- In re Tax Appeal of City of Wichita
• 86022 -- Barrett v. U.S.D. No. 259
• 86243 -- State v. Price
• 86334 -- Acosta v. Nat'l Beef Packing Co.
• 86620 -- O'Malley v. Frazier (dissenting)
• 86624 -- State v. Gordon
• 86782 -- State v. Boldridge
• 86793 -- State v. Gotti
• 86801 -- American Trust Administrators, Inc. v. Sebelius
• 87001 -- In re W.H.
• 87002 -- O'Donoghue v. Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co.
• 87005 -- Liggatt v. Employers Mut. Casualty Co.
• 87080 -- Cannon v. Farmers Ins. Co.
• 87192 -- State v. Davis
• 87217 -- State v. Graham
• 87263 -- Halsey v. Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co., Inc.
• 87383 -- State v. Washington
• 87407 -- State v. Beach
• 87583 -- Waterview Resolution Corp. v. Allen
• 87651 -- Wilson v. Kansas State University
• 87770 -- In re Estate of Keller
• 87771 -- Williamson v. City of Hays
• 88001 -- State v. Bell
• 88030 -- State v. Krovvidi
• 88075 -- McPherson Landfill, Inc. v. Board of Shawnee County Comm'rs
• 88077 -- Dawson v. Prager (dissenting)
• 88084 -- State v. Hebert
• 88085 -- State v. Martis
• 88254 -- J.E. Akers Co., Inc. v. Advertising Unlimited, Inc.
• 88434 -- Rose v. Via Christi Health System, Inc. (dissenting)
• 88440 -- Montoy v. State
• 88442 -- State v. Long
• 88462 -- State v. Cherry
• 88546 -- State v. Bunyard
• 88646 -- State ex rel. Graeber v. Marion County Landfill, Inc.
• 88657 -- State ex rel. Stovall v. DVM Enterprises, Inc.
• 88977 -- State v. Shelby
• 89021 -- State v. Perez-Moran
• 89030 -- In re Tax Exemption Application of Central Kansas E.N.T. Associates, PA
• 89037 -- State v. Huff
• 89114 -- State v. Seems
• 89153 -- State v. Boone
• 89179 -- In re Harris Testamentary Trust
• 89300 -- State v. Fisher (concurring)
• 89360 -- Neal v. Hy-Vee, Inc.
• 89452 -- Eudora Development Co. of Kansas v. City of Eudora
• 89481 -- State v. Patton
• 89494 -- In re Appeal of Colorado Interstate Gas Co.
• 89511 -- State v. Martin (concurring & dissenting
• 89578 -- In re Appeal of ANR Pipeline Co.
• 89610 -- State v. Shelton
• 89934 -- In re Tax Appeal of City of Wichita
• 90124 -- In re Doe
• 90132 -- State v. Van Hoet
• 90166 -- City of Salina v. Amador
• 90221 -- State v. McCurry
• 90317 -- Stone v. U.S.D. No. 222
• 90420 -- State v. Holmes
• 90475 -- Jones v. Kansas State University
• 90511 -- Pullen v. West
• 90532 -- State v. Lackey
• 90933 -- In re D.M.
• 91007 -- State v. Chamberlain
• 91044 -- Brewer v. Schalansky (dissenting)
• 91214 -- State v. Vann
• 91271 -- State v. Walker
• 91353 -- State v. Noah (concurring)
• 91469 -- State v. Gonzalez
• 91498 -- State v. Sedillos
• 91721 -- Pankratz Implement Co. v. Citizens Nat'l Bank
• 91827 -- Smith v. Martens
• 91963 -- State v. de la Cerda
• 92018 -- State v. Potts
• 92032 -- Montoy v. State (concur)
• 92051 -- Cross v. Kansas Dept. of Revenue
• 92233 -- Phillips v. State (dissenting)
• 92361 -- Love v. State
• 92438 -- State v. Washington
• 92596 -- Data Tree v. Meek
• 92655 -- In re Tax Appeal of CIG Field Services Co. (dissenting)
• 92867 -- Welch v. Via Christi Health Partners, Inc.
• 92968 -- State v. McElroy
• 93013 -- Sall v. T's, Inc.
• 93066 -- South v. McCarter
• 93089 -- State v. Gary
• 93113 -- In re Condemnation of Land v. Stranger Valley Land Co. (concurring)
• 93168 -- State v. Harned
• 93470 -- In re Estate of Hjersted (concurring)
• 93500 -- Haddock v. State
• 93622 -- LSF Franchise REO I v. Emporia Restaurants, Inc.
• 93627 -- State v. Conway
• 93654 -- Drach v. Bruce
• 93670 -- State v. McKissack
• 93701 -- Fisher v. Kansas Crime Victims Comp. Bd.
• 93762 -- McIntosh v. Sedgwick County
• 93931 -- State v. Tatum
• 93940 -- State v. Allen
• 93972 -- State v. Winston
• 94013 -- Kemke v. Kansas Dept. of Revenue
• 94056 -- State v. Ruiz-Reyes (Judgment of Court of Appeals reversing the District Court is affirmed. Judgment of the District court is reversed and remanded for resentencing.)
• 94295 -- State v. Hernandez
• 94366 -- State v. Davis
• 94575 -- State v. Gumfory
• 94619 -- State v. Murray
• 94634 -- Lane v. Atchison Heritage Conf. Center, Inc.
• 94719 -- State ex rel. Topeka Police Dept. v. $895.00 U.S. Currency
• 94877 -- Dragon v. Vanguard Industries
• 94893 -- City of Arkansas City v. Burton
• 94879 -- Baska v. Sherzer
• 95029 -- Bruch v. Kansas Dept. of Revenue
• 95041 -- State v. Fewell (Judgment of the Court of Appeals affirming the district court is affirmed. Judgment of the district court is affirmed)
• 95088 -- State v. King
• 95105 -- State v. Paul (judgement of the Court of Appeals affirming the district court is affirmed. Judgment of the district court is affirmed)
• 95138 -- State v. Stano
• 95202 - Thomas v. Benchmark Ins. Co (dissent)
• 95209 -- State v. Hemphill
• 95303 -- State v. Greever
• 95365 -- State v. Murdock
• 95418 -- Miller v. Bartle
• 95680 -- State v. Overstreet
• 95815 -- State v. Miller
• 96003 -- In re Adoption of X.J.A. (dissenting)
• 96229 -- Estate of Kirkpatrick v. City of Olathe
• 96658 -- Board of Sumner County Comm'rs v. Bremby
• 96793 -- Burnett v. Southwestern Bell Telephone
• 96868 -- Deal v. Bowman
• 96921 -- State v. Boggs
• 97062 -- Hodges, et al. v. Johnson
• 97119 -- State v. Heath
• 97323 -- State v. Hendrix (Dissenting)
• 97546 -- In re Adoption of G.L.V.
• 97652 -- Boldridge v. State
• 98038 -- State v. Bennett
• 98059/98060 -- State v. Marx (concurring)
• 98133 -- State v. Cofield
• 98179 -- Elstun v. Spangles, Inc
• 98665 -- State v. Andelt
• 98747 -- Compr. Health of Planned Parenthood of Ks. v. Kline (concur)
• 98840 -- State v. Vaughn
• 98930 -- Rebel v. Kansas Dept. Of Revenue
• 98949 -- State v. Gallegos
• 99665 -- State v. Davis