{"id":83659,"date":"2024-11-22T10:13:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T16:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=83659"},"modified":"2024-11-22T10:13:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T16:13:41","slug":"curtis-brown-named-chief-judge-of-23rd-judicial-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=83659","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Brown named chief judge of 23rd Judicial District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Special to Tiger Media Network<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TOPEKA\u2014The Kansas Supreme Court has appointed Curtis Brown to serve as chief judge in the 23rd Judicial District from Jan. 13 through Dec. 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown was recently elected to a district judge position and will be sworn-in Jan. 13. He will assume his duties as chief judge the same day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe thank Judge-elect Brown for taking on the additional responsibilities serving as chief judge as soon as he\u2019s sworn-in,\u201d said Chief Justice Marla Luckert. \u201cWe look forward to working with him in this role.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will succeed Chief Judge Glenn Braun, who will retire Jan. 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 23rd Judicial District is composed of Ellis, Gove, Rooks, and Trego counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am very honored to be able to serve the 23rd Judicial District as chief judge,\u201d he said. \u201cI look forward to taking on the responsibility of the position and am excited to be able to work with the legal community in the district.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown was born and raised in Norton. He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Nebraska Kearney and his law degree from the University of Tulsa College of Law. After law school, he worked for Kansas Legal Services in Hays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2012, Brown joined Glassman, Bird, Braun, and Schwartz, becoming a partner in 2015. In 2018, he started his own law practice, the Law Office of J. Curtis Brown, LLC. Starting in 2021, he served as attorney for Trego County and prosecutor for the city of WaKeeney.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He serves on the Northwest Kansas Community Corrections Board and the Northwest Kansas Juvenile Services Board. He served for five years as the Ellis County drug court\u2019s defense attorney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is past president of the Ellis County Bar Association and a past member of the Kansas Bar Foundation Board of Trustees and Kansas Legal Services board of directors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of Kansas\u2019 31 judicial districts has a chief judge who, in addition to their judicial responsibilities, has general control over case assignments within the district, as well as general supervisory authority over the administrative and clerical functions of the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to Tiger Media Network TOPEKA\u2014The Kansas Supreme Court has appointed Curtis Brown to serve as chief judge in the 23rd Judicial District from Jan.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83660,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83659\/revisions\/83660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}