TOPEKA—District Judge Kathleen Sloan of the 10th Judicial District has been appointed to sit with the Kansas Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in one case on the court's March 12 docket.
After hearing oral arguments, Sloan will join Supreme Court justices in their deliberations and decision drafting.
“I am pleased that Judge Sloan is taking time from her duties in the 10th Judicial District to sit with the Supreme Court,” said Chief Justice Lawton Nuss. “It's a great help to our court, and we look forward to her contributions in deliberating and eventually deciding this case.”
Sloan, of Overland Park, was appointed judge in September 2004. She hears cases in the 10th Judicial District, which is composed of Johnson County.
“It is such a privilege and honor to be asked to sit with the Kansas Supreme Court," Sloan said. "I am deeply humbled at receiving such an assignment.”
Sloan earned a bachelor's degree from George Washington University in 1983 and a law degree from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1991. She served as a legislative assistant for U.S. Rep. Larry Winn from 1978 to 1984 and then as staff director for U.S. Rep. Jan Meyers from 1985 to 1987. She was a law clerk for the 10th Judicial District from 1988 to 1991. She was in private practice from 1991 to 1997, then appointed by the chief judge as the district court trustee for Johnson County, where she served from 1997 to 2004, prior to her appointment as a judge.
She is a past president of the Johnson County Bar Foundation and has served as a director of Johnson County CASA, Shawnee Mission Medical Center Foundation, and Johnson County Community College Foundation. She has served on the Johnson County Advisory Committee to the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault.
All Supreme Court oral arguments are webcast live through the Watch Supreme Court Live! link in the right-hand column of the Kansas judicial branch website at www.kscourts.org.
The case Sloan will hear is the fourth one scheduled on the court's 9 a.m. docket March 12:
Case No. 120,518: In the Matter of Kevin T. Cure
Original Proceeding Related to Attorney Discipline: (18-month suspension) The Supreme Court admitted Cure to the practice of law in April 1991. Cure pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in 2014. In early March 2016, Cure drove to the courthouse while intoxicated and appeared as the city attorney for Galena. In late March 2016, Cure was arrested in Joplin, Missouri, for driving while intoxicated. In July 2016, Cure was arrested again in Joplin for driving while intoxicated and driving with a revoked or suspended driver's license. Cure entered a treatment facility in September 2016. However, Cure was again arrested for driving while intoxicated in September 2017. Missouri indefinitely suspended Cure's license to practice law in July 2018, and the Kansas Supreme Court temporarily suspended his license to practice law as well. The hearing panel recommends Cure's license to practice law be suspended for 18 months. The Disciplinary Administrator's Office recommends Cure's license be indefinitely suspended retroactive to the date of temporary suspension in July 2018. Cure asks his temporary suspension be lifted and he be allowed to resume the practice of law under his proposed plan of probation.