Judges Assistance Committee

Purpose

The Judges Assistance Committee provides help to any Kansas judge in need due to mental or physical disability, or addiction.

The Judges Assistance Committee seeks to:

• identify judges who are impaired;

• arrange intervention;

• recommend avenues of treatment;

• provide a program of peer support;

• advocate for judges who are ill and help them recognize their impairment, obtain treatment, and return to their job; and

• educate the public and attorneys about the nature of impairments and encourage early referrals and self-referrals.
   

​Confidentiality

Contact with judges is confidential, unless the matter is referred to the Commission on Judicial Conduct because the judge has failed or refused to address issues of concern.
 

Roster

• District Judge Rene Young, Saline County 

• District Judge Kathleen Lynch, Wyandotte County

• District Magistrate Judge Richard Flax, Trego County

• District Judge Michael Hoelscher, Sedgwick County

• District Judge Sally Pokorny, Douglas County

• District Magistrate Judge Dale Snyder, Rush County

• District Judge Penny Moylan, Shawnee County
   

Contact

A judge or member of the public can contact the committee or any committee member directly.

Judges Assistance Committee
Kansas Judicial Center
301 SW 10th Ave., Room 107
Topeka, KS 66612-1507
785-296-2256
judgeassist@kscourts.org