Justice Beier to be sworn in

TOPEKA—The Supreme Court will meet in special session Friday, September 5, at 1:30 p.m. for the swearing-in ceremony of Justice-designee Carol A. Beier (pronounced Byer).

Judge Beier was appointed to the Court to fill a vacancy created by the June 6 retirement of Justice Bob Abbott. She will be presented to the Supreme Court by Wichita attorney Gaye B. Tibbets, who is with the Wichita firm of Hite, Fanning & Honeyman, L.L.P. A reception will follow in the atrium of the Judicial Center.

Judge Beier has been a member of the Court of Appeals since February 2000. Before that, she spent the 11 years before joining the Court at Foulston & Siefkin, L.L.P., in Wichita, where her trial and appellate practice focused on commercial disputes and health care law. Judge Beier also spent one year teaching at the University of Kansas School of Law.

Prior to joining Foulston & Siefkin, Judge Beier practiced in Washington, D.C., first as a staff attorney at the National Women's Law Center through a fellowship program of the Georgetown Law Center and then at Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn. Immediately after law school graduation, Judge Beier had served as a clerk to then Judge James K. Logan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.

Judge Beier is married to Richard W. Green and has three children.