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General

The Court of Appeals consists of 13 judges, each with an office in the Kansas Judicial Center, staffed with a judicial executive assistant and a chambers' attorney. The purposes of the court from its inception include bringing the appellate court to the people, serving litigants and counsel with timely and well-written appellate opinions, and achieving efficiencies in appellate court operations for the taxpayers.

To accomplish these goals, the court sits in three-judge panels in Topeka, as well as at county courthouses and other suitable locations throughout the state. Senior judges are regularly assigned to assist on many panels, and district court judges may be assigned as well.

Jurisdiction of the court is specified by K.S.A. 60-2101 and 60-2102. Panels are required to handle many appeals on an expedited basis, including utility rate cases, juvenile adjudications, termination of parental rights cases, election disputes, interlocutory appeals, extradition appeals, temporary injunctions, and others.

The Chief Judge of the court is selected by the Supreme Court under K.S.A. 20-3011 and exercises administrative powers as may be prescribed by law or by rule of the Supreme Court.

Administrative officers of the court are the chief counsel to the Chief Judge and the director of central research. The central research staff consists of the director, assistant director, motions attorney, research attorneys, and secretaries. The central research staff and the judges' research attorneys are responsible for the prehearing processing of appeals, which includes jurisdictional checks, research, and writing of prehearing memoranda.

(Adopted by the Court March 23, 2011)