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Shirla R. McQueen graduated from West Texas State University (B.B.A., 1984) and the University of Kansas (J.D., 1987). She was admitted to practice in the state and federal courts in Kansas in 1987. Before joining Sharp McQueen, P.A., she served as Assistant General Counsel for the Kansas Corporation Commission from 1987-1991. Ms. McQueen joined Sharp McQueen, P.A., in 1991. She currently serves on the Kansas Board of Examiners of Court Reporters (2013-_____). Ms. McQueen is the City Prosecutor for the City of Liberal, Kansas, and the City Attorney for the City of Liberal, Kansas. She McQueen is a member of the Seward-Haskell County Bar Association, the Southwest Kansas Bar Association, the Kansas Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Kansas Bar Foundation, the Kansas Association of Defense Counsel (past Board member), the Defense Research Institute, Inc., and the Kansas Association of Hospital Attorneys. Ms. McQueen devotes most of her practice to civil litigation, criminal prosecution, health law, insurance defense, employment, and workers’ compensation law.

Kerry E. McQueen graduated from Fort Hays State University (B.S., 1961) and Washburn University of Topeka (J.D., 1965). He was admitted to practice in Kansas state and federal courts in 1965, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in 1969, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma in 1976. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, where he served on the State Committee from 1993-1998, and an Associate of the American Board of Trial Advocates, where he served as President of the Kansas Chapter from 1985-1986. Mr. McQueen served on the Kansas Board of Examiners of Court Reporters from 1998-2013 and on the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission from 2006-2014.

He is a member of the Seward-Haskell County Bar Association, the Southwest Kansas Bar Association, the Kansas Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Kansas Bar Foundation, the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys, the Kansas Association of Defense Counsel (past Board member), the Defense Research Institute, Inc., the Kansas Association of Hospital Attorneys, and the American Academy of Hospital Attorneys. Mr. McQueen devotes most of his practice to civil litigation, antitrust, collective bargaining agreement arbitration, education, health, and workers’ compensation law and has served as the firm’s managing stockholder since 1991.