Date of Birth: 1962 Place of Birth: Red Oak, Iowa By Whom Appointed: Governor Sam Brownback
Education
- B.A. -- Rockhurst College, 1984
- J.D. -- University of Kansas, 1987
Career History
- Ferree & Bunn, Chtd.; Ferree, Bunn & Byrum, Chtd.; Ferree, Bunn, & O’Grady, Chtd.; and Ferree, Bunn, O’Grady & Rundberg, Chtd., 1987 to 2012.
Civic & Professional Activities
- Kansas Supreme Court Advisory Council on Dispute Resolution, Chair, August 2017 to present.
- Kansas Supreme Court Access to Justice Committee (formerly known as the Self Represented Party Committee) member August 2008 to May 2014.
- Johnson County Family Law American Inn of Court, Master (2013 to present), founding President (2013-2017), national program committee 2015-2016.
- Convener, Kansas City Metro Family Law Summit, October 27, 2018.
- Kansas Bar Association (member since 1987) Family Law Section President Elect (1998-1999) and President (1999-2000), Family Law Section editor in 2000-2001, 2005-2006 and member of the Family Law Section executive committee from 1998 to 2001 and 2003 through 2005 and 2018 to present.
- Johnson County Bar Association (member since 1987), Board of Directors (2009 to 2011). Family Law Bench-Bar Committee since 1988, chair from 1997 through September 2012.
- Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.
- American Bar Association
- Frequent speaker on family law, alternative dispute resolution and legal ethics.
- Making the Limited-Scope Relationship Work, Family Advocate, Vol. 35, No.2, Fall 2012
- Starting a Help Center in Twelve Easy Steps: One Court’s Experience with Trial, Error and Lots of Help, Court Review, vol. 51, Issue 2.
- 2005 CASA of Johnson & Wyandotte County, Kansas Attorney of the Year.
- Named a “Super Lawyer” (the top 5% of lawyers in Kansas and Missouri) by Law & Politics/KC Magazine’s Super Lawyers Magazine in 2005, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
- Recipient of the Kansas Bar Association Pro Bono Certificate 2010 and 2015 (accepting on behalf of the Johnson County District Court Self Help Center).
- 2019 Johnson County Bar Association President’s Award