Keynen “K.J.” Wall Jr.

Keynen “K.J.” Wall Jr. was appointed to the Kansas Supreme Court in 2020.

Justice Wall is from Scott City and earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Kansas State University, where he was a 1993 national college debate champion and All-American. He then earned a master’s degree in scientific and technical communications from the University of Minnesota in 1996, and a law degree from the University of Kansas School of Law, graduating Order of the Coif in December 2001.

After law school, Justice Wall was a law clerk for Chief Judge John W. Lungstrum of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. In 2004 he became associate attorney for Witwer, Oldenburg, Barry & Johnson in Greeley, Colorado, and in 2008, senior legal counsel for Federated Insurance in Owatonna, Minnesota.

Justice Wall returned to Kansas in 2013 as special projects counsel and deputy general counsel for the Kansas Supreme Court, where he handled capital cases and special projects.

At the time of his appointment, Justice Wall was a partner of Forbes Law Group, LLC, where he managed an appellate practice and represented county hospitals, rural healthcare providers and community mental health centers throughout Kansas.

Justice Wall is the Supreme Court liaison to the Child Support Guidelines Advisory Committee, Kansas Children’s Cabinet, National Center for State Courts’ family plans and programs, Permanent Families Account Advisory Committee, Task Force on Permanency Planning and the KU Law Research Clinic. He also serves as Chair of the Rural Justice Initiative Committee.