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Following is a list of justices of the Kansas Supreme Court who are currently serving and those previously in office since the beginning of the State of Kansas in 1861. As of 2024, the Kansas Supreme Court has seven justices currently serving on the supreme bench.
The Kansas Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority in the U.S. state of Kansas.Composed of seven justices, led by Chief Justice Marla Luckert, [1] the court supervises the legal profession, administers the judicial branch, and serves as the state court of last resort in the appeals process.
On October 19, 2019, the Supreme Court Nominating Commission submitted Wilson's name, along with two others to the Governor. [8] On December 16, 2019, Governor Laura Kelly appointed Wilson to the seat on the Kansas Supreme Court vacated by the retirement of Lee A. Johnson on September 8, 2019. [3] She was sworn in on January 24, 2020. [9]
Kansas also uses committees to appoint its Supreme Court justices and local judges in some counties, including Johnson County. In Wyandotte County, local judges are popularly elected. In Wyandotte ...
Kansans have never voted to remove a state Supreme Court justice. Kansas election results: All six state Supreme Court justices to stay on the bench Skip to main content
In 2003 she was appointed to the Kansas Supreme Court by Governor Bill Graves. [4] Luckert has served as president of the Kansas Bar Association, the Kansas District Judges Association, the Kansas Women Attorneys Association, the Topeka Bar Association, the Sam A. Crow Inn of Court, and the Women Attorneys Association of Topeka. [5]
Activists smarting from the public’s overwhelming endorsement of abortion rights will want to remake the court for political purposes. | Editorial Six Kansas Supreme Court justices are on the ...
Davis' first judicial post was as a magistrate judge in Leavenworth County from 1969 to 1976. He served as an attorney for the State Board of Pharmacy in 1972 and Leavenworth County attorney starting in 1981 until appointed associate district judge in 1984. Two years later, in 1986 Davis was appointed to the Kansas Court of Appeals.