(June 13, 2003) Topeka, KSRachael K. Pirner, Wichita, was elected to serve as the District Seven Representative of the Kansas Bar Association (KBA) Board of Governors by the association's membership for 2003-2004.
Pirner is a member of the Triplett, Woolf & Garretson LLC law firm and practices in the area of general litigation, oil and gas, and contested probate matters. She graduated from the University of Nebraska School of Law in 1989.
She is the president of the KBA Litigation Section and has served on the KBA CLE, Nominating, and Fee Dispute committees. She is active in the Wichita Women Attorneys Association (WWAA), having held all offices in the association. She received the Louise Maddox Award from the WWAA, which honors individuals who have worked to advance opportunities for women in law. Pirner has also served the Kansas Women Attorneys Association as its president, vice president, secretary, regional coordinator, and as a chair of the Public Relations Committee.
Pirner has also been on the Wichita Bar Association's Legislative, Public Relations, Probate, Diversity, Unauthorized Practice of Law, and Nominating committees.
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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