Christel E. Marquardt (born Chicago, Illinois) is a
judge
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on the
Kansas Court of Appeals
The Kansas Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the U.S. state of Kansas.
History
The Kansas Legislature created the first Kansas Court of Appeals in 1895, to help the Kansas Supreme Court with an increasingly heavy casel ...
, having served since 1995.
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Marquardt received a B.S. in education from Missouri Western State College. After teaching
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school in Wisconsin, she attended Washburn University School of Law
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; she received her law degree
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in 1974. Marquardt joined the Topeka law firm
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Cosgrove, Webb & Oman in 1974. In 1986, she moved to Palmer, Marquardt & Snyder. In 1991, she joined the Kansas City firm Levy & Craig, P.C. Three years later, she formed Marquardt & Associates, L.L.C. with her son. She practiced at this firm until her appointment to the court.
References
External links
Kansas Court of Appeals website
Judge Marquardt's official judicial performance report
Living people
Missouri Western State University alumni
Washburn University alumni
American women judges
Kansas Court of Appeals Judges
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
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