Longtime Kansas Judicial Council member honored

TOPEKA—Marvin E. Thompson, Russell, has been awarded a certificate of appreciation for his long-time service on the Kansas Judicial Council, a 10-member board that works to improve the administration of justice in Kansas by continuously studying the judicial system and related areas of the law.

Thompson served as a member of the prestigious board for 31 years. Other members of the board include the chair of the judiciary committee of both houses of the Legislature and judges and lawyers appointed by the Supreme Court. During his tenure he served as a member and chair of numerous committees of the Judicial Council, which resulted in sweeping changes to Kansas law.

He served as a member of the Care and Treatment/Guardianship Advisory Committee, the Continuing Legal Education Advisory Committee, the Civil Code Advisory Committee, the Lien Law Advisory Committee, the Probate Law Advisory Committee and the title Standards Advisory Committee.

He chaired the Governmental Immunity Advisory Committee from 1970 through 1973, Administrative Chair of the State Bench Bar Advisory Committee from 1973 through 1975, chair of the Continuing Legal Education Advisory Committee from 1976 through 1978, and chair of the Advisory Committee on Attorney Fees in 1986. He also served as chair of the Civil Code Advisory Committee from 1975 through 1994 and as chair of the probate Law Advisory Committee from 1997 until his retirement from the Judicial Council.

In Russell, he has been a long time member of the B.P.O.E., served on the county zoning commission and serves as Moderator for the First Congregational Church of Russell. He married Maxine Snow in 1942. She died in 1991. He has two children, David Thompson of Russell and Patricia Hubert of Vernon, Vermont. In 1992, he married Arcella Wasinger.

Thompson also was honored by a Senate Resolution that was adopted during the 2001 legislative session. He is a past president of the Kansas Bar Association.