Richard D. Greene is Chief Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals

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 crated the first Kansas Court of Appeals in 1895, to help the Kansas Supreme Court with an increasingly heavy caseload. The original statute that created the court...

. He was appointed to the Court by Governor Sebelius in June of 2003, and he was appointed Chief by the Kansas Supreme Court in November of 2010.

Biography

Judge Greene was born on January 9, 1950 in Hermann, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1972 with a B.S. in Business Administration and went on to receive a J.D.

Juris Doctor

Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...

degree from Southern Methodist University-Dallas in 1975. He is now married with four daughters.

Legal career

After law school, Judge Greene joined the law firm Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy. He practiced with this firm for 28 years. He was appointed to sit with the Kansas Supreme Court for parts of the 2007-2008 term and he is currently the presiding judge of the Motions Panel of the Court of Appeals.

External links

• Kansas Court of Appeals website