Judge Waxse is a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Kansas City, Kan. Prior to becoming a judge, he was a partner of Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP in Overland Park, where he practiced from 1984 to 1999. From 1970 to 1984, he was with Payne & Jones Chtd. He received his J.D. from Columbia University in New York City and was admitted to the Kansas Bar in 1971.

Judge Waxse has served as chair of the Kansas Commission on Judicial Qualifications, member of the Kansas Justice Commission, the board of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights, and the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Committee of the USDC in Kansas. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the American Judicature Society and of the Miller-Marley Youth Ballet of Kansas City. He is a member of the Professionalism Committee of the ABA and on the Board of Editors of the Professional Lawyer, an ABA publication. He is a member of the Earl E. O'Connor Inn of Court and is president of the Inn.

He has served as a lecturer in law at the University of Kansas School of Law and has presented Continuing Legal Education programs for various professional organizations. Judge Waxse has served as chair of the KBA committees on Legal Aid, the Unauthorized Practice of Law, Access to Justice, and Nominations. In 1982 he received the KBA's Outstanding Service Award. He is also a Fellow of the Johnson County, Kansas, and American bar foundations. His other bar memberships include the Wyandotte County, Johnson County, and Kansas City Metropolitan bar associations.

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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