Admitted
1964, Kansas; 1967, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1972, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
University of Kansas, LL.B., 1964
Law School Graduation Year
1964
College
University of Kansas, B.A., 1961
Memberships
Douglas County (President, 1981-1982), Kansas (Member, Board of Governors, 1997-2003; Chairman, Legislative Committee, 2001—) and American (Member, Lawyers Conference Judicial Performance & Conduct Committee) Bar Associations; Association of Judicial Disciplinary Counsel; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Biographical
Phi Delta Phi. The Judge Hugh Means American Inn of Court. Member, Kansas Judicial Council Criminal Law Advisory Committee, Kansas Law Review, 1963-1964. Author: Expertise: The Expert and the Learned Treatise, Kansas Law Review, Vol. 17, No. 1, November, 1968, pp. 1967-1979; Standards for Assignment of Work in Jurisdictional Work Disputes, University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, Winter, 1965, pp. 35-60; Wrongful Death and the Choice-of-Law Problem, Kansas Law Review, Vol. 13, No. 4, May, 1965, pp. 529-541; The Right to Counsel: Evolution or Revolution in the Criminal Law, Kansas Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 4, May, 1964, pp. 525-536; Title to Helium, A New Chapter in the Law, Kansas Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 3, March, 1964, pp. 417-425; Foreign Corporations-Qualification to do Business, In Personum Jurisdiction, and the ‘Doing Business’ Concept, Kansas Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, October, 1963, pp. 83-93; Are We Not Treating the Judiciary as the 'Ugly Ducking' of Government, Winter edition of the Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy, Volume IX, Number III, pp. 302-341, 1999. Co-author: Legal Muscle for the Fight Against Pollution, Washburn Law Journal Vol. 9, No. 3, Spring 1970, pp. 342-370. Lecturer: Conflicts, Family Law and Creditors Rights, University of Washburn School of Law, 1969-1971; Criminal Procedure, University of Kansas School of Law, 1972-1974. CLE Lecturer, Criminal Law, Zoning Law and Judicial Discipline. Assistant Attorney General, State of Kansas, 1968-1972. Examiner, Kansas Commission on Judicial Qualifications, 1975—.