TOPEKA—The Supreme Court Nominating Commission today submitted the names of three persons to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as nominees for the newly created 13th position on the Kansas Court of Appeals.
They are for Rep. Ward E. Loyd, Garden City; Timothy J. Moore, Wichita; and Melissa Taylor Standridge, Overland Park. All three are in private practice.
The governor will have 60 days in which to make the appointment.
Loyd served in the Kansas House of Representatives from January 11, 1999, through January 8, 2007, while maintaining a private law practice in Garden City, where he began his practice in July 1968. He has been sole practitioner since 1981.
Loyd is a 1965 graduate of Southwestern College in Winfield and a 1968 graduate of the Washburn University School of Law, and has served on numerous civic and governmental boards and commissions throughout his professional career.
Moore has been in private practice in the Wichita office of Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, Chtd. since 1989. He has focused on trade secrets and products liability litigation, defense work, and intellectual property. Active in the Wichita Bar Association, he has held every office in that legal organization, is a fellow of the Kansas Bar Association, and has frequently presented legal seminars to industry groups.
Moore was graduated from Brown University, magna cum laude, and from Harvard Law School, cum laude, where he was senior editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Standridge has practiced law for 13 years, including four years with the Overland Park firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon. She has served as chambers counsel for U.S. Magistrate Judge David J. Waxse in Kansas City, KS, since October 1999.
She is a 1993 graduate of the University of Missouri—Kansas City School of Law and was editor-in-chief of the school’s law review. She is a 1984 graduate of the University of Kansas, Lawrence.