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United States District Court For The District Of Kansas
The United States District Court for the District of Kansas (in case citations, 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, Kansas, 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). the Acting United States Attorney is Duston Slinkard. On March 12, 2015, Ron Miller, most recently police chief of Topeka, Kansas, was confirmed as U.S. Marshal. The Clerk of Court is Skyler B. O'Hara, who is located in To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City, abbreviated as "KCK", is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas, and the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is an inner suburb of the older and more populous Kansas City, Missouri, after which it is named. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 156,607, making it one of four principal cities in the Kansas City metropolitan area. It is situated at Kaw Point, the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers. It is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified Government". It is the location of the University of Kansas Medical Center and Kansas City Kansas Community College. History In October 1872, "old" Kansas City, Kansas, was incorporated. The first city election was held on October 22 of that year, by order of Judge Hiram Stevens of the Tenth Judicial District, and resulted in the election of Mayor James Boyle. The mayors of the city after its organization were James Boyle, C. A. Eidemiller, A. S. Orbison, Eli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Williams (judge)
Archibald Williams (June 10, 1801 – September 21, 1863) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. Williams was a friend and political ally of President Abraham Lincoln. Education and career Born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, the son of John Williams and Amelia Gill Williams, Williams read law to enter the bar in 1828. He was in private practice in Quincy, Illinois beginning in 1829. For several months in early 1832, he served as a volunteer in the Black Hawk War against Native Americans. In the fall of 1832, he supported Henry Clay for President of the United States. He was the United States Attorney for the District of Illinois from 1849 to 1853. He served in both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. State senate service While in the Illinois Senate, Williams studied and reported on School Financing to the Senate, arguing for local control of schools rather than establishing a statewide sys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Crouse
Toby Jon Crouse (born 1975) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. He was formerly the Solicitor General of Kansas. Biography Crouse graduated from Kansas State University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science. He then attended the University of Kansas School of Law, where he was an articles editor of the '' Kansas Law Review''. He graduated in 2000 with a Juris Doctor and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Crouse began his career as a law clerk to Judge Monti Belot of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas and Judge Mary Beck Briscoe of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He then worked at the firm Foulston Siefkin. Crouse served as Solicitor General of Kansas from January 2018 to December 2020. As Solicitor General, he argued and won two cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. Those cases are ''Kahler v. Kansas'' and '' Kansas v. Glover''. He left the Kan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Lou Teeter
Holly Lou Teeter ( Hydeman; born 1979) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. Early life and education Teeter was born Holly Lou Hydeman in 1979 in Kansas City, Kansas. She graduated from Shawnee Mission Northwest High School. Teeter studied chemical engineering at the University of Kansas, graduating in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science with highest distinction. She earned a diploma in legal studies from the University of Oxford in 2003, then returned to the United States to attend the University of Kansas School of Law, where she was a member of the '' Kansas Law Review''. She graduated in 2006 ranked first in her class with a Juris Doctor degree and Order of the Coif honors. Career After graduating from law school, Teeter practiced patent law at Los Alamos National Security from 2006 to 2007 and at the Kansas City law firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon from 2007 to 2011. Teeter was a law clerk for judge Carlos Murguia of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Federal Judges Appointed By Donald Trump
This is a comprehensive list of all Article Three of the United States Constitution, Article III and Article Four of the United States Constitution, Article IV United States federal judges appointed by President Donald Trump as well as a partial list of Article One of the United States Constitution, Article I federal judicial appointments, excluding appointments to the Washington, D.C., District of Columbia judiciary. The total number of Trump Article Three of the United States Constitution, Article III judgeship nominees to be confirmed by the United States Senate was 234, including three Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 54 judges for the United States courts of appeals, 174 judges for the United States district courts, and three judges for the United States Court of International Trade. Trump did not make any recess appointments to the federal courts. A record twelve United States courts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
