TOPEKA—Five Topeka attorneys have submitted applications for a vacancy on the Shawnee County District Court that was created by the appointment of Judge David E. Bruns to the Court of Appeals.
Applying by the noon Monday deadline for the vacancy were Steven R. Ebberts, Robert A. Fox, Carl William Ossmann, Fred C. Patton, and Brian M. Vasquez.
The Third Judicial District Nominating Commission is scheduled to interview the five June 20 beginning at 9 a.m. in the Shawnee County Courthouse.
Ebberts, a native of Garden City, has been the Topeka Municipal Court judge since 2003, and had been engaged in private practice in several capacities since his graduation from the Washburn University School of Law in 1993.
Fox has been the Jefferson County Attorney since January, where he began work as an assistant county attorney in January 2009. He is a 1979 graduate of the University of South Dakota School of Law, Vermillion, SD.
Ossmann is Chief Litigation Attorney for the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, and also serves as an adjunct professor of law at Washburn University School of Law, where he supervises the work of several adjunct law professors.
Patton is a sole practitioner and has maintained a broad based practice since his graduation from the University of Kansas School of Law in 2000.
Vasquez is a 1979 graduate of the Washburn Law School and has been the Deputy General Counsel, Kansas Health Policy Authority, since March 2008, and has worked for the Authority since 1992.
The 3rd Judicial District Nominating Commission includes Justice Marla J. Luckert, as the nonvoting chair, and Lee R. Barnett, Wakarusa; Toby L. McCullough, Rossville; Terry E. Beck, Mary M. Thomas, Mary D. Feighny, and C. Patrick Woods, all of Topeka.