Kansan on the U.S. Supreme Court?

At least one Kansan has been mentioned in the national media (NPR, Slate, USA Today) among possible replacements for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: Deanell Reece Tacha, chief judge of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver and a Lawrence resident. A Goodland native, Tacha was nominated to the appeals court by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and became chief judge in 2001. Tacha is worth cheering on, at least in part because there hasn’t been a Kansan on the court since Charles E. Whittaker (1957-62).
Posted by Rhonda Holman