Topeka attorney Don Patterson to be honored guest at judicial conference

TOPEKA — Retired Topeka attorney and World War II veteran Don Patterson will be an honored guest at the Kansas Judicial Conference June 12 in Topeka.

Patterson will join nearly 300 of the state’s justices, judges, magistrate judges, and senior and retired judges, to hear speakers from the United State Holocaust Museum present “Law, Justice, and the Holocaust,” an educational program designed specifically for the judiciary.

Patterson was a 20-year-old corporal serving in the 20th Armored Division of the U.S. Army when his division helped liberate nearly 32,000 prisoners at Dachau, a Nazi Germany concentration camp outside Munich, in April 1945.

“We are honored Don can join us for this presentation,” said Lawton Nuss, chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. “We commend him for his service to his country and to his fellow man.”

During his law career, Patterson’s trial experience included real estate, antitrust, trade practices, vehicular accidents, medical malpractice, fair employment practices, products liability, civil rights and government defense.

He was a founding member of the Topeka law firm Fisher, Patterson, Sayler and Smith. He is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Attorneys.