She served on the ABA's Commission on Mental and Physical Disability from 2000 to the present. In 2002, she was appointed to serve as the state membership chair for Kansas for the ABA and was appointed to the Select Committee of the ABA House of Delegates. She served as chair of the KBA Law Related Education Committee from 1999-2002 and as chair of the KBA Annual Meeting Committee in 1999. Parks has served on the KBA Ethics Committee since 1997. She has been a member of the board of the Kansas Lawyers Service Corporation since 1996. She is presently a member of the KBA Executive Committee. Parks became a Fellow of the Kansas Bar Foundation in 1994 and served on the Foundation's Board of Trustees as its representative of the Kansas Women's Attorney Association (KWAA) from 1999-2001.

Parks is active in the Wichita Bar Association serving on the Ethics Committee since 1995 and the Nominating Committee in 1996, 1998, and 2000. She became a member of the KWAA with its inception in 1994, serving as its first president. She received the KWAA's Jennie Mitchell Kellogg Circle Attorney of Achievement Award in 2000 and the Louise Mattox Attorney of Achievement Award in 1997.

About the Kansas Bar Association
The Kansas Bar Association was founded in 1882 as a voluntary association for dedicated legal professionals and has approximately 6,200 members, including lawyers, judges, law students, and legal assistants. The KBA is dedicated to advancing the professionalism and legal skills of lawyers, promoting the interests of the legal profession, providing services to its members, advocating positions on law-related issues, encouraging public understanding of the law, and promoting the effective administration of our system of justice.

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