Wichita ? A Sedgwick County judge violated courtroom standards when she lost her temper with prospective jurors before a 2004 murder trial, the state’s Commission on Judicial Qualifications says.

The seven-member panel on Friday recommended that the Kansas Supreme Court censure Sedgwick County District Judge Rebecca Pilshaw. The high court can follow that recommendation or decide its own discipline, including suspension or removal from the bench.

The last time the commission sent the court a disciplinary case was in 2005. In that case, the justices followed the panel’s recommendation to remove Saline County District Judge George Robertson for viewing Internet pornography on his office computer.

An attorney for Pilshaw, Steve Joseph, said he recommended she contest the commission’s finding.

“Judges yell all the time at lawyers. I’ve had judges yell at me,” Joseph said. “What we’re saying is, in this case, she acted appropriately.”

The Supreme Court already criticized Pilshaw’s conduct in April 2007, when it considered the appeal of Dewey A. Gaither, the defendant in the murder case. According to the court’s account, Pilshaw yelled at prospective jurors during the first day of jury selection, after two women were removed.

Joseph said the judge wanted to stop people from trying to get out of jury duty after seeing others removed.