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Judge Amy J. Hanley

Douglas County District Judge Amy Hanley is one of three nominees being considered for a seat on the Kansas Supreme Court, according to a news release from the Kansas Judicial Branch’s Office of Administration.

On Tuesday, the office announced the Supreme Court Nominating Commission’s selection of Hanley and the other two nominees — Johnson County District Judge K. Christopher Jayaram and attorney Larkin Walsh, of Leawood — out of a pool of 15 applicants.

Gov. Laura Kelly will have 60 days to select one of the three to fill the seat that will be vacated by Justice Evelyn Wilson, who will be resigning on July 4.

Hanley has been a district judge in Douglas County since 2016. She has been program director for advocacy programs at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy; a special assistant U.S. attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas; and assistant attorney general for the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, according to the news release. She graduated from Kansas State University and Drake University School of Law.

Several other people from Douglas County applied but did not make the final list of nominees: Judge Carl Adrian Folsom III and lawyers Meryl Brianne Carver-Allmond, Brian Lee Mizer and Krystal Lynn Vokins.