Leawood woman to serve on Commission on Judicial Qualifications

TOPEKA—Dr. Mary Davidson Cohen, Leawood, has been appointed to a four-year term on the Commission on Judicial Qualifications, an advisory board to the state Supreme Court that investigates disciplinary complaints brought against judges.

She succeeds Carol Sader, Prairie Village, whose term on the 14-member panel expired this summer.

Currently regional representative for Region VII for the U.S. Secretary of Education, Cohen holds a doctorate in education administration from the University of Kansas and a masters of arts in science education for elementary teachers from Columbia University. She received a bachelor of science in education from the University of Missouri at Columbia.

Cohen previously served as vice president for adult and continuing education and dean of the graduate school at Saint Mary College in Leavenworth. Before that, she served as assistant director of the William T. Kemper Foundation and was assistant chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Kansas Regents Center from 1976 to 1992.