May 2019 News Releases

TOPEKA—The 3rd Judicial District Nominating Commission will convene June 14 to interview 10 nominees to fill a district judge vacancy in Shawnee County created by the July 12 retirement of Judge Mark Braun.

The commission will meet at 9 a.m. Friday, June 14, in the Shawnee County Courthouse, 200 SE Seventh St. Interviews are open ...

TOPEKA—The 21st Judicial District Nominating Commission is seeking nominations to fill a district judge vacancy in Riley County created by the June 16 retirement of Chief Judge Meryl Wilson.

The 21st Judicial District is composed of Clay and Riley counties.

Justice Marla Luckert, the Supreme Court departmental justice ...

TOPEKA—The 7th Judicial District Nominating Commission has sent the names of four nominees for district judge to Gov. Laura Kelly, who has 60 days to decide who will fill the vacancy created by the June 15 retirement of Judge Paula Martin.

The 7th Judicial District is composed of Douglas County.

The four nominees are ...

TOPEKA—District Magistrate Judge Ross McIlvain will retire July 4 after 15 years of service.

McIlvain, who serves in Greenwood County of the 13th Judicial District, ...

TOPEKA—Chief Judge Meryl Wilson of the 21st Judicial District will retire June 16 after 22 years of service. He has been a ...

TOPEKA—The 10th Judicial District Nominating Commission has sent the names of three nominees for district judge to Gov. Laura Kelly, who has 60 days to decide who will fill the vacancy created by the June 28 retirement of Judge Kevin Moriarty.

The 10th Judicial District is composed of Johnson County.

The three nominees: ...

TOPEKA—Chief Justice Lawton Nuss of the Kansas Supreme Court appointed Senior Judge Richard Walker to a two-year term on the board ...

TOPEKA—Chief Judge Lawton Nuss of the Kansas Supreme Court reappointed James Cooper and Robert Fairchild, both of Lawrence, and Norman Kelly, Salina, to the Kansas Commission on Judicial Conduct, formerly known as the Kansas Commission on Judicial Qualifications.

Their terms end June 30, 2023.

The 14-member commission ...

TOPEKA—The 7th Judicial District Nominating Commission will convene at 8:45 a.m. Thursday, May 23, to interview nominees to fill a district judge vacancy in Douglas County created by the June 15 retirement of Judge Paula Martin.

Interviews are open to the public and they will be in the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 111 E ...

TOPEKA—The 25th Judicial District Nominating Commission selected Christopher James Velez of Garden City to fill a magistrate judge vacancy in Hamilton County.

The commission conducted a public interview of the nominee May 10 at the Hamilton County Courthouse in Syracuse. Velez was the only nominee.

Velez's new ...

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled that state law does not permit District Court Judge Jeffry Jack or Governor Laura Kelly to withdraw Judge Jack's appointment to the Kansas Court of Appeals.

No. 121,061: State of Kansas v. Governor Laura Kelly, Chief Justice Lawton R. Nuss, and Kansas ...