Kansas Court of Appeals Chief Judge Karen Arnold-Burger started her conversation with Emporia Rotary Club members with a civics lesson on how the three branches of government — executive, legislative and judicial — are supposed to interact. That was by design.
On Tuesday, Arnold-Burger said judges do their best to be impartial, although they can unknowingly bring biases to the table. She says a diverse bench with different perspectives is good as judges work towards the right solution for the cases they oversee.
Arnold-Burger has served as the Court of Appeals’ lead judge since 2017 after being appointed to the court in 2011. She started her law career as Overland Park’s assistant city attorney in 1981, moving to assistant US attorney for the US District Court of Kansas in Kansas City in 1989.
