Swearing-in ceremony set for Melissa Taylor Standridge

TOPEKA—The newest member of the Kansas Court of Appeals will be sworn into office in a ceremony Friday at 2 p.m. in the Supreme Court Courtroom.

Melissa Taylor Standridge, Overland Park, was appointed to fill the newly created 13th position on the Court of Appeals.

She has practiced law for 13 years, including four years with the Overland Park firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon. Standridge has served as chambers counsel for U.S. Magistrate Judge David J. Waxse in Kansas City, KS, since 1999.

A 1993 graduate of the University of Missouri—Kansas City School of Law, she served as editor-in-chief of the school’s law review.  She is a 1984 graduate of the University of Kansas, Lawrence.