[3][5] He started his career in the law firm of Shaffer and Tincher and his first government post was deputy county attorney in 1926 under Charles Hall.
[7] During World War II he enlisted as a private to serve in the 301st Ordnance Company in March 1942, then was commissioned into the department of the judge advocate general in the following December.
[4] Fontron was appointed on March 3, 1964, to the Supreme Court by Governor John Anderson to succeed Schuyler W. Jackson who had resigned for health reasons.
Thus the policy provideth and the policy taketh away"[3] In another case in 1973 he upheld that cock-fighting was not illegal under the present state laws invoking George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln stating that the first three were "devotees" and pronouncing "As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in His image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive chickens of the same privilege".
[10] While serving on the Supreme Court he also taught legal ethics at Washburn University School of Law, an institution that awarded him a special honor in 1974.
[3] He had been working for a few years with other judges and lawyers to produce a book on the history of the Kansas Bar Association, he had been the committee chairman and wrote the first chapter.