Frank Gordon Theis (June 26, 1911 – January 17, 1998) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
Frank Gordon Theis
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas
Born 1911 in Yale, KS
Died 1998
FJC ID: 2360
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 5/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 108/year
Kansas District Court · 1967–1998
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Private practice, Arkansas City, Kansas1936–1937, 1939–1950, 1952–1967
- Arkansas City, KansasCity attorney · 1955–1959
- Office of Price StabilizationChief counsel for Kansas · 1950–1952
- Cowley County, KansasDeputy county attorney · 1942–1946
- Kansas Tax CommissionAttorney · 1937–1939
Appointments
1967–1998 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
J.D. · 1936- University of KansasB.A. · 1933