Judge KIRSTEN POPPEN
Graduate of Kansas State University, B.S., magna cum laude, 1994.
University of Kansas School of Law, J.D., order of the coif honors, 1997.
Federal Law Clerk to the Honorable G. Thomas VanBebber, United State District Court for the District of Kansas, 1998-2000.
Private practice at Shook, Hardy, Bacon, Strong Law Firm, and Neale and Newman.
Appointed Associate Circuit Judge in 2023.