Class of 1986-7 Justice Kansas Supreme Court 301 SW 10th Avenue Suite 313 Topeka, KS 66612-1507 beierc@kscourts.org

Placement: National Women’s Law Center

Profile:

Carol A. Beier was born in Kansas City, Kansas, on September 27, 1958. She attended Benedictine College in Atchison and the University of Kansas, Lawrence, where she obtained a B.S. in Journalism in 1981. Before law school, she worked as an editor at The Kansas City Times. Justice Beier received her law degree from the University of Kansas in 1985. She graduated from the University of Virginia School of law, Graduate Program for Judges in 2004, with an LL.M., Masters of Law in the Judicial Process.

Before joining the Court on September 5, 2003, she had served as a judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals since February 2000.

Justice Beier spent eleven years before joining the Court of Appeals at Foulston & Siefkin, L.L.P., in Wichita, where her trial and appellate practice focused on commercial disputes. Justice Beier also spent one year teaching and directing two student clinical programs at the University of Kansas School of Law. Prior to joining Foulston & Siefkin, Justice Beier practiced in Washington D.C., first as a staff attorney at the National Women's Law Center through the Women's Rights and Public Policy fellowship program of the Georgetown Law Center, and then at Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, where her practice focused on white collar criminal defense. Immediately after law school graduation, Justice Beier had served as a clerk to then Judge James K. Logan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Justice Beier is married to Richard W. Green and has three children.

Affiliations:

Justice Beier is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Judicature Society, the American Bar Foundation, the National Association of Women Judges, the Kansas Bar Association, the D.C. Bar, the Kansas Women Attorneys Association, the Wichita and Topeka Bar Associations, and the Institute of Judicial Administration, New York University School of Law. She has been appointed to serve on the Kansas Children's Cabinet. She is a past officer and board member of the statewide and city women's bars and has chaired and served on numerous bar committees and on the boards of several community organizations. Justice Beier is the author of several legal publications and is a frequent presenter for legal and lay audiences.