Life Inside the Kansas Supreme Court

Honorable Carol A. Beier
Justice, Kansas Supreme Court 2003-

Carol A. Beier has been justice of the Kansas Supreme Court since September 5, 2003, having served as a judge on the Kansas Court of Appeals from February 18, 2000.  Before taking the bench, Justice Beier was a partner at Foulston Siefkin LLP in Wichita. While at the firm, she had a broad trial and appellate practice. Justice Beier also spent one year as a visiting professor at the University of Kansas School of Law, where she designed and taught a course on women and the law, taught an advanced torts class, and directed two student clinical programs — a criminal law appeals clinic and what was then known as the Paul E. Wilson Defender Project.

Honorable Caleb Stegall

Justice, Kansas Supreme Court 2014-

Caleb Stegall was born September 20, 1971, in Topeka, Kansas. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1989, and in 1993 he received a Bachelor of Arts, with honors, in English Literature from Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. He earned his Juris Doctorate in December 1999 from the University of Kansas School of Law, where he served on the Kansas Law Review; was awarded the William L. Burdick Prize, given to the top student in his or her class; and graduated Order of the Coif.

Justice Stegall was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Sam Brownback effective December 5, 2014, following his tenure on the Kansas Court of Appeals.  Upon his admission to the Kansas bar in 2000, Justice Stegall served as a law clerk to the Honorable Deanell R. Tacha, chief judge of the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. He then joined the Topeka office of the Foulston Siefkin law firm, where he practiced in the areas of commercial, tort and appellate litigation.