TOPEKA — Successful applicants to the July 2015 Kansas bar examination were sworn in as Kansas attorneys at a ceremony Friday, Sept. 25, at the Topeka Performing Arts Center. Among those eligible for the ceremony was Kathleen Michelle Wary of Great Bend.
Chief Justice Lawton Nuss presided over the Supreme Court and Judge Daniel Crabtree represented the U.S. District Court.
Heather Smith, clerk of the Kansas Supreme Court, administered the state oath and Rachel Lyle, pro se law clerk of the U.S. District Court, administered the federal oath.
Kevin F. Mitchelson and David R. Cooper, respectively the chair and a member of the Kansas Board of Law Examiners, presented the new attorneys to the court.
Of the 109 applicants tested in the July 2015 Kansas bar exam, 83 successfully passed, 82 were eligible to be admitted, and 67 planned to be present to be sworn in.