Caleb Stegall
| Caleb Stegall | |
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| Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court | |
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Assumed office August 29, 2014 |
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| Appointed by | Sam Brownback |
| Preceded by | Nancy Moritz |
| Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals | |
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In office January 3, 2014 – August 29, 2014 |
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| Appointed by | Sam Brownback |
| Preceded by | Newly Created 14th Position |
| Succeeded by | Kathryn Gardner |
| Chief Counsel to the Governor of Kansas | |
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In office January 10, 2011 – January 3, 2014 |
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| Appointed by | Sam Brownback |
| County Attorney of Jefferson County | |
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In office January 12, 2009 – January 10, 2011 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 20, 1971 Topeka, Kansas |
| Alma mater |
Geneva College University of Kansas School of Law |
Caleb Stegall (born September 20, 1971) is an American attorney and writer residing in Perry, Kansas. He has served as the District attorney for Jefferson County, Kansas and Chief Counsel to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback before being appointed to the Kansas Court of Appeals. On August 29, 2014, Stegall was appointed by Kansas Governor Sam Brownback to the Kansas Supreme Court, replacing Nancy Moritz, who was appointed by President Barack Obama to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a proponent of traditionalist conservatism.
Born in Topeka, Stegall is a lifelong resident of Douglas and Jefferson Counties in northeast Kansas.
At the time of his appointment by Brownback, the Kansas Democratic Party issued a release criticizing Brownback for the appointment. He represented the State of Kansas in litigation with environmentalists over the permitting of coal-fired power plants. Stegall represented eight American missionaries detained in Haiti following the 2010 Haiti earthquake. In 2008 he successfully defended the former executive director of the Kansas Republican Party in a dispute over Kansas campaign finance rules. In 2007 he was the lead counsel in the Kansas Supreme Court trial of former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline. In 2008, Stegall represented a group of residents opposed public financing of casino operations in Kansas City, Kansas.
In 2008 he represented a church that challenged local regulations on the church's operations as a homeless shelter. In 2009 he represented a teacher who claimed he had not been rehired because of his conservative political beliefs. As district attorney, he filed charges in 2009 against a county commissioner charged with theft by deception. and in 2010 was involved with a federal and state investigation of a distributor of "ethnobotanicals" who was accused of selling a synthetic cannabis.
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