United States District Court for the District of Kansas
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The United States District Court for the District of Kansas (in case citation
s, D. Kan.) is the federal district court
whose jurisdiction
is the state of Kansas
. The Court operates out of the Robert J. Dole United States Courthouse in Kansas City
, the Frank Carlson Federal Building in Topeka
, and the United States Courthouse in Wichita
. The District of Kansas was created in 1861, replacing the territorial court that preceded it, and President Abraham Lincoln
appointed Archibald Williams
as the Court's first judge.
Appeals from the District of Kansas are made to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
(except for patent
claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act
, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit
).
All judges
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| Wesley E. Brown||John F. Kennedy
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| Sam A. Crow
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| Mark W. Delahay
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| Cassius Gaius Foster
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| Guy T. Helvering
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| Delmas Carl Hill
||Harry S. Truman
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| William Cather Hook
||William McKinley
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| Richard Joseph Hopkins
||Herbert Hoover
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| Patrick F. Kelly
||Jimmy Carter
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| John Watson Lungstrum
||George H. W. Bush
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| John Thomas Marten
||Bill Clinton
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| George Thomas McDermott
||Calvin Coolidge
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| Eric F. Melgren
||George W. Bush
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| Arthur Johnson Mellott
||Harry S. Truman
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| Carlos Murguia
||Bill Clinton
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| Earl Eugene O'Connor
||Richard Nixon
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| John Calvin Pollock
||Theodore Roosevelt
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| Julie A. Robinson
||George W. Bush
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| Richard Dean Rogers
||Gerald Ford
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| Dale Emerson Saffels
||Jimmy Carter
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| Arthur Jehu Stanley, Jr.
||Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| Henry George Templar
||John F. Kennedy
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| Frank Gordon Theis
||Lyndon B. Johnson
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| George Thomas VanBebber
||George H. W. Bush
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| Kathryn Hoefer Vratil
||George H. W. Bush
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| Archibald Williams
||Abraham Lincoln
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Additionally, the Court has six Magistrate Judges
.
The Clerk of Court is Timothy M. O'Brien, who is located in Kansas City
.
Case citation
Case citation is the system used in many countries to identify the decisions in past court cases, either in special series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a 'neutral' form which will identify a decision wherever it was reported...
s, D. Kan.) is the federal district court
United States district court
The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the district court, which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty. There is a United States bankruptcy court associated with each United States...
whose jurisdiction
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction is the practical authority granted to a formally constituted legal body or to a political leader to deal with and make pronouncements on legal matters and, by implication, to administer justice within a defined area of responsibility...
is the state of Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
. The Court operates out of the Robert J. Dole United States Courthouse in Kansas City
Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified...
, the Frank Carlson Federal Building in Topeka
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka |Kansa]]: Tó Pee Kuh) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was...
, and the United States Courthouse in Wichita
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area...
. The District of Kansas was created in 1861, replacing the territorial court that preceded it, and President Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
appointed Archibald Williams
Archibald Williams (judge)
Archibald Williams was a United States federal judge.Born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, Williams read law to enter the bar in 1828. He was in private practice in Quincy, Illinois beginning in 1829. He was the United States Attorney for the District of Illinois from 1849 to 1853...
as the Court's first judge.
Appeals from the District of Kansas are made to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Colorado* District of Kansas...
(except for patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act
Tucker Act
Through the Tucker Act , the United States government has waived its sovereign immunity with respect to certain lawsuits....
, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
-Vacancies and pending nominations:-List of former judges:-Chief judges:Notwithstanding the foregoing, when the court was initially created, Congress had to resolve which chief judge of the predecessor courts would become the first chief judge...
).
Judges
The Court's Article III judges include five senior judges and five active judges. A vacancy was created in the District when Judge John W. Lungstrum assumed senior status on November 2, 2010.Name | Year Appointed | Appointed by | Location |
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Chief Judge Kathryn H. Vratil | 1992 | George H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to... |
Kansas City Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified... |
Judge J. Thomas Marten | 1996 | Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation... |
Wichita Wichita, Kansas Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area... |
Judge Carlos Murguia Carlos Murguia Carlos Murguia is a United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.-Early life and education:... |
1999 | Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation... |
Kansas City Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified... |
Judge Julie A. Robinson Julie A. Robinson Julie Ann Robinson is a United States federal judge.Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Robinson received a B.S. from the University of Kansas in 1978 and a J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1981. She was a law clerk, Private practice, Kansas in 1981. She was a Law clerk, Hon. Benjamin E.... |
2001 | George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... |
Topeka |
Judge Eric F. Melgren Eric F. Melgren Eric F. Melgren is a United States federal judge who sits on the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.Born in Minneola, Kansas, Melgren received a B.A. from Wichita State University in 1979 and a J.D. from Washburn University School of Law in 1985. He was a law clerk for Hon.... |
2008 | George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... |
Wichita Wichita, Kansas Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area... |
vacant | - | - | - |
Senior Judge Wesley E. Brown | 1962 | John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.... |
Wichita Wichita, Kansas Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area... |
Senior Judge Richard D. Rogers | 1975 | Gerald R. Ford | Topeka |
Senior Judge Sam A. Crow Sam A. Crow Sam A. Crow is a United States federal judge.Born in Topeka, Kansas in 1926, Crow was a seaman in the United States Navy during World War II, from 1944 to 1945. He received a B.A. from the University of Kansas in 1949 and a J.D. from Washburn University School of Law in 1952. He was in private... |
1981 | Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office... |
Topeka |
Senior Judge Monti L. Belot Monti L. Belot -Early life and career:Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Belot received a B.A. from the University of Kansas in 1965 and a J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1968. He was a U.S. Naval Reserve Legal officer, in the JAG Corps, from 1968 to 1971. He was a law clerk, Hon. Wesley E. Brown,... |
1991 | George H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to... |
Wichita Wichita, Kansas Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area... |
Senior Judge John W. Lungstrum | 1991 | George H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to... |
Kansas City Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified... |
All judges
Judge | Appointed by | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
End reason |
Monti L. Belot Monti L. Belot -Early life and career:Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Belot received a B.A. from the University of Kansas in 1965 and a J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1968. He was a U.S. Naval Reserve Legal officer, in the JAG Corps, from 1968 to 1971. He was a law clerk, Hon. Wesley E. Brown,... |
George H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to... |
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| Wesley E. Brown||John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
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| Sam A. Crow
Sam A. Crow
Sam A. Crow is a United States federal judge.Born in Topeka, Kansas in 1926, Crow was a seaman in the United States Navy during World War II, from 1944 to 1945. He received a B.A. from the University of Kansas in 1949 and a J.D. from Washburn University School of Law in 1952. He was in private...
||Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
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| Mark W. Delahay
Mark W. Delahay
Mark W. Delahay was a United States federal judge, and an early supporter of the Republican Party. A friend of Abraham Lincoln, Delahay was appointed by Lincoln to the federal bench, but he resigned a decade later under threat of impeachment, brought about by allegations of alcoholism.- Early life...
||Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
||||||–||resignation
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| Cassius Gaius Foster
Cassius Gaius Foster
Cassius Gaius Foster was a United States federal judge.Born in Webster, New York, Foster read law to enter the bar in 1859. He was in private practice in Rochester, New York in 1859, and in Atchison, Kansas from 1859 to 1863. He was a Kansas state senator from 1863 to 1864, returning to private...
||Ulysses Grant||||||–||retirement
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| Guy T. Helvering
Guy T. Helvering
Guy Tresillian Helvering was an American politician. He was a U.S. Representative from Kansas, and later served as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and as a federal district court judge.-Early life:...
||Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...
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| Delmas Carl Hill
Delmas Carl Hill
Delmas Carl Hill was a United States federal judge.Born in Wamego, Kansas, Hill received an LL.B. from Washburn College in 1929. He was in private practice in Wamego, Kansas from 1929 to 1943. He was a City attorney of Wamego, Kansas from 1929 to 1934. He was a County attorney of Pottawatomie...
||Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...
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| William Cather Hook
William Cather Hook
William Cather Hook was a United States federal judge.Born in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, Hook received an LL.B. from Washington University School of Law in 1878. He was in private practice in Leavenworth, Kansas from 1878 to 1899...
||William McKinley
William McKinley
William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...
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| Richard Joseph Hopkins
Richard Joseph Hopkins
Richard Joseph Hopkins was a United States federal judge.Born in Jefferson City, Missouri, Hopkins received an LL.B. from Northwestern University School of Law in 1901. He was in private practice in Chicago, Illinois from 1901 to 1906. He was in private practice in Garden City, Kansas from 1906 to...
||Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...
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| Patrick F. Kelly
Patrick F. Kelly
Patrick F. Kelly was a United States federal judge.Born in Wichita, Kansas, Kelly received a B.A. from Wichita University in 1951 and an LL.B. from Washburn University School of Law in 1953. He was in the U.S. Air Force from 1953 to 1955...
||Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
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| John Watson Lungstrum
John Watson Lungstrum
John Watson Lungstrum is a United States federal judge.Lungstrum grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where he graduated from the Pembroke Country-Day School in 1963. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1967, and a J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1970...
||George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
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| John Thomas Marten
John Thomas Marten
John Thomas Marten is a United States federal judge.Born in Topeka, Kansas, Marten received a B.A. from Washburn University in 1973 and a J.D. from Washburn University School of Law in 1976. He was a law clerk to Justice Tom C. Clark of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1976 to 1977...
||Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
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| George Thomas McDermott
George Thomas McDermott
George Thomas McDermott was a United States federal judge.Born in Winfield, Kansas, McDermott received a Ph.B. from the University of Chicago in 1908 and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1909. He was in private practice in Topeka, Kansas from 1910 to 1917. He was in the United...
||Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...
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| Eric F. Melgren
Eric F. Melgren
Eric F. Melgren is a United States federal judge who sits on the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.Born in Minneola, Kansas, Melgren received a B.A. from Wichita State University in 1979 and a J.D. from Washburn University School of Law in 1985. He was a law clerk for Hon....
||George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
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| Arthur Johnson Mellott
Arthur Johnson Mellott
Arthur Johnson Mellott was a United States federal judge.Born in Wallula, Kansas, Mellott received an LL.B. from Kansas City School of Law in 1917. He was an assistant U.S. Attorney of the District of Kansas from 1917 to 1918, and was in private practice in Kansas City, Kansas from 1919 to 1922...
||Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...
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| Carlos Murguia
Carlos Murguia
Carlos Murguia is a United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.-Early life and education:...
||Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
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| Earl Eugene O'Connor
Earl Eugene O'Connor
Earl Eugene O'Connor was a United States federal judge.Born in Paola, Kansas, O'Connor was in the United States Army during World War II, from 1942 to 1946. He received a B.S. from the University of Kansas in 1948 and an LL.B. from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1950...
||Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...
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| John Calvin Pollock
John Calvin Pollock
John Calvin Pollock was a United States federal judge.Born in Belmont County, Ohio, Pollock received an A.B. from Franklin College in 1882 and read law to enter the bar in 1884. He was in private practice in Newton, Iowa from 1884 to 1885, then in Hartville, Missouri until 1886, and then in...
||Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
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| Julie A. Robinson
Julie A. Robinson
Julie Ann Robinson is a United States federal judge.Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Robinson received a B.S. from the University of Kansas in 1978 and a J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1981. She was a law clerk, Private practice, Kansas in 1981. She was a Law clerk, Hon. Benjamin E....
||George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
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| Richard Dean Rogers
Richard Dean Rogers
Richard Dean Rogers is a United States federal judge.Born in Oberlin, Kansas, Rogers received a B.S. from Kansas State University in 1943. He was in the United States Army Air Force Captain, Bombardier during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. He received a J.D. from the University of Kansas School...
||Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...
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| Dale Emerson Saffels
Dale Emerson Saffels
Dale Emerson Saffels was a United States federal judge.Born in Moline, Kansas, Saffels was a Major in the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II, from 1942 to 1946. He then received a B.A. from Emporia State University in 1947 and a J.D. from Washburn University School of Law in 1949...
||Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
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| Arthur Jehu Stanley, Jr.
Arthur Jehu Stanley, Jr.
Arthur Jehu Stanley, Jr. was a United States federal judge.Born in Lincoln County, Kansas, Stanley was a sergeant in the United States Army during World War I, from 1918 to 1919 and a Fireman, First Class in the United States Navy from 1921 to 1925. He received an LL.B...
||Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
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| Henry George Templar
Henry George Templar
Henry George Templar was a United States federal judge.Born in Cowley County, Kansas, Templar received an LL.B. from Washburn University School of Law in 1927. He was in private practice in Arkansas City, Kansas from 1927 to 1953. He was a Deputy oil inspector, State of Kansas from 1930 to 1932...
||John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
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| Frank Gordon Theis
Frank Gordon Theis
Frank Gordon Theis was a United States federal judge.Born in Yale, Kansas, Theis received a B.A. from the University of Kansas in 1933 and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1936. He was in private practice in Arkansas City, Kansas from 1936 to 1937. He was an Attorney, Kansas...
||Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...
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| George Thomas VanBebber
George Thomas VanBebber
George Thomas VanBebber was a United States federal judge.Born in Troy, Kansas, VanBebber received a B.A. from the University of Kansas in 1953 and an LL.B...
||George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
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| Kathryn Hoefer Vratil
Kathryn Hoefer Vratil
Kathryn Hoefer Vratil is a United States federal judge.Born in Manhattan, Kansas, Vratilreceived a B.A. from the University of Kansas in 1971 and a J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1975. She was a law clerk to the Hon. Earl E. O'Connor, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas...
||George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
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| Archibald Williams
Archibald Williams (judge)
Archibald Williams was a United States federal judge.Born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, Williams read law to enter the bar in 1828. He was in private practice in Quincy, Illinois beginning in 1829. He was the United States Attorney for the District of Illinois from 1849 to 1853...
||Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
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|}
Additionally, the Court has six Magistrate Judges
United States magistrate judge
In the United States federal courts, magistrate judges are appointed to assist United States district court judges in the performance of their duties...
.
Name | Location |
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Chief Magistrate Judge Karen M. Humphreys | Wichita Wichita, Kansas Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area... |
Magistrate Judge David J. Waxse | Kansas City Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified... |
Magistrate Judge Gerald L. Rushfelt | Kansas City Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified... |
Magistrate Judge James P. O'Hara | Kansas City Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified... |
Magistrate Judge K. Gary Sebelius K. Gary Sebelius Keith Gary Sebelius , known professionally as K. Gary Sebelius or Gary Sebelius, is a United States magistrate judge and a former federal judicial nominee to the United States District Court for the District of Kansas... |
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Magistrate Judge Kenneth G. Gale | Wichita Wichita, Kansas Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area... |
The Clerk of Court is Timothy M. O'Brien, who is located in Kansas City
Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified...
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