TOPEKA, Kan. – Lonnie Jerome Hajney, of Carbondale, was one of the successful applicants in the February 2017 Kansas bar examination. Hajney and other successful applicants will be sworn in as Kansas attorneys in one of two ceremonies at 9 a.m. or 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 28, 2017, in the Supreme Court courtroom at the Kansas Judicial Center, 301 SW 10th Ave., Topeka.

Chief Justice Lawton Nuss will preside over the Supreme Court, and Judge Daniel Crabtree will represent the U.S. District Court. Douglas T. Shima, clerk of the Kansas Supreme Court, will administer the state oath, and Megan I. Garrett, deputy clerk for the U.S. District Court, will administer the federal oath. Kevin F. Mitchelson and Donald N. Peterson II, chair and vice chair of the Kansas Board of Law Examiners, respectively, will present the new attorneys to the court.