• Home
• Clerk's Office
  
  • Records Request
    • Fillable Form
  • Transcripts
  • Civil
    • Filing Fees
    • Limited Actions
    • Small Claims
      • Small Claims Brochure
      • Fillable Forms
    • Mechanic's Liens
    • Satisfaction of Judgment
  • Marriage License
    • Marriage License Information
    • Ceremony & Copies
    • Who Can Perform Weddings
  • Criminal
    • Court Costs
    • Bad Checks
    • Domestic Violence
  • Juvenile
  • Probate
  • Traffic
• Self-Help Center
  • Divorce with Children
  • Divorce with no Children
  • Annulment with Children
  • Annulment with no Children
  • Separation with Children
  • Separation with no Children
  • Expungment
  • Parentage
  • Enforce Separation or Divorce
  • Child Support/Reimbursement
  • Parenting Time/Plan
  • Parenting Plan and Child Support
  • Rehearing or Appeal
  • Notice of Hearing
  • Miscellaneous
  • Name Change
  • Protection Orders
• On-Line Payments
• Jury Duty Info
• About the Court
  • Attorney Appointments
    • Appointment Fee Schedule
    • Order Appointing Counsel - Misdemeanor Case
  • Case Filing Statistics
  • Career Opportunities
  --%>
  • Domestic Violence Grant Application
  • Interpreters
  • Veterans Treatment Court
• Court Services
• Local Rules
  • Overview
  • Administrative Orders
  • General
  • Civil
  • Appendices
  • Criminal
  • Juvenile
  • Probate
  • Surities
  • Traffic
• Judges
• Law Library
• Career Opportunities
• Links

Name:  Thomas Kelly Ryan

Year of Birth:  1960

Place of Birth:  Kansas City, Missouri

When Appointed:  September 24, 2008

By Whom Appointed:  Governor Kathleen Sebelius

City of Residence:  Shawnee

Education:

• B.A. Journalism and Mass Communications - Creighton University 1981
• J.D. - Washburn University School of Law 1985

Career History:

• 1985 Assistant County Attorney, Lyon County, Kansas
• 1985-1988 Assistant District Attorney, Johnson County, Kansas
• 1988-2008 Private law practice; Gates, Biles, Shields & Ryan, P.A.
• 1993-2005 City Prosecutor, Edgerton, Kansas
• 2007-2008 Municipal Court Judge, Edgerton, Kansas
• 2008 Assistant City Prosecutor, Fairway, Kansas

Awards:

• June 2009 Outstanding Service Award Kansas Bar Association

Civic and Professional Activities:

• Johnson County Bar Association (President, Young Lawyers Section 1990) (Member, Family Law Section)
• Johnson County Family Law Bench-Bar Committee
• Fellow of Johnson County Bar Foundation
• Kansas Bar Association (President, Family Law Section 2007-2008; Executive Committee member 2007-present) (Section Liaison for Continuing Legal Education 2000-2006)
• Board of Directors, Johnson County Law Library (2009-present)
• Kansas District Judges Association
• American Judges Association
• National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
• More than 30 presentations at continuing legal education seminars (1993-present)