Nominating commission announces three nominees for Court of Appeals vacancy
The Salina Journal
TOPEKA The Court of Appeals Nominating Commission announced the three nominees chosen to fill the vacancy created by the Supreme Court appointment of Melissa Taylor Standridge.
Gov. Laura Kelly will appoint one nominee to fill the vacancy and will submit that appointee for Senate consent during the 2021 legislative session.
The three Court of Appeals nominees are as follows:
• Angela D. Coble Coble, of Salina, is a judicial clerk with Judge Gwynne E. Birzer for the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. She serves as a board member of the Salina Family Healthcare Center and is a member of the Wichita Women Attorney’s Association, the Kansas Women Attorney’s Association, and the Saline-Ottawa County Bar Association. Coble earned her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Kansas Wesleyan University and her law degree from Washburn University.
Leawood judge Melissa Taylor Standridge becomes sixth woman appointed to Kansas Supreme Court Melissa Taylor Standridge, a Leawood judge, was sworn in as a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court on Monday morning. Standridge is in the middle on the bottom row. Image via YouTube.
Melissa Taylor Standridge, a Leawood judge, was sworn in as a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court on Monday morning.
Chief Justice Marla Luckert presided over the ceremony, which took place by video conference and was broadcast live on YouTube due to the health and safety risks of mass gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Today is not only a special day for the court and Judge Standridge, her husband Richard and their family, but for all Kansans,” Luckert said. “It is a special and historic day for the administration of justice in Kansas.”