New attorneys to take state and federal oaths in April 27 ceremony

TOPEKA—Successful applicants to the February 2018 Kansas bar examination will be sworn in as Kansas attorneys at 10 a.m. Friday, April 27, in the Kansas Supreme Court courtroom at the Kansas Judicial Center, 301 SW 10th Avenue, in Topeka.

Chief Justice Lawton Nuss will preside over the Supreme Court, and Chief Judge Janice Miller Karlin of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Kansas, will represent the federal court.

Douglas Shima, clerk of the Kansas appellate courts, will administer the state oath, and Joyce Ridgeway, division manager of the Topeka office of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Kansas, will administer the federal oath.

Donald Peterson II and Christina Lewerenz Holland, respectively the chair and vice chair of the Kansas Board of Law Examiners, will present the new attorneys to the court.

New attorneys eligible to be sworn in, listed alphabetically by county, are:

New attorneys unable to attend the ceremony can have the oath administered by a judge of record in the United States or make special arrangements with the clerk of the appellate courts to have the oath administered at a later date in the judicial center.