of WWAA. She 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. She has been the co-chair of the annual women attorney’s Lindsborg CLE, which draws approximately 140 women attorneys from across the state for its three-day seminar. She received the Louise Maddox Award in 2001 given by the WWAA, which honors persons who have worked to advance opportunities for women in law. Pirner has long participated in the Lawyer’s Care Project through Kansas Legal Services. She has volunteered to represent women seeking Protection from Abuse orders and prepares advance directives for indigent persons in hospice care. Pirner has also served on the board of directors of the YWCA, Kybele Inc. and Planned Parenthood. In addition to serving on the KBA Board of Governors she also currently serves as immediate past president of the Community Council for Wichita State Women and the World, a member of the board of trustees for KPTS public television, and on the board of Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts. Pirner was also appointed by District Attorney Nola Foulston to serve on the Financial Abuse Specialist Team, which is a team assembled to combat financial abuse of dependent adults.
Vice President Lee M. Smithyman, of Overland Park, practices corporate and insurance litigation with Smithyman & Zakoura Chtd. He earned his Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1970. In that year, he also received his master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business. After serving four years in Germany as an Army officer in the Air Defense Artillery, he returned to Washburn University School of Law, where he graduated cum laude in 1976. Smithyman is admitted to practice in Kansas, Missouri, the U.S. district courts in Kansas and Missouri, the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Lee M. Smithyman U.S. Tax Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the Wyandotte County, Johnson County, and Kansas bar associations. He is a certified arbitrator and mediator with the American Arbitration Association and is board certified in civil litigation by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is a master emeritus with the Earl E. O’Connor American Inn of Court, a Tenth Judicial District Nominating commissioner, and a member of the Johnson County Ethics Committee. He has received the Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyer designation in business litigation each year since 2005, has been inducted into the American Trial Lawyers Association signifying recognition as one of the top 100 trial lawyers in the state, and enjoys a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating. 10 April 2010 | The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association
Secretary-Tresurer Dennis D. Depew, of Neodesha, has been in private practice with the Depew Law Firm since 1983. His primary practice includes family law, estate planning, real estate, corporate, municipal, and alternative dispute resolution. His family’s law firm recently completed its 57th year of service to the southeast Kansas area. He received his Bachelor of Science in business administration in 1980 and his Juris Doctor in 1983 from the University of Kansas. Depew is a member of the Wilson County, 31st Judicial District, and Kansas bar associations. He is admitted to practice with the Kansas Supreme Court, U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Depew has been a member Dennis D. Depew of the Kansas Board of Discipline of Attorneys since being appointed by the Kansas Supreme Court in 1999. He has served on a number of KBA committees, including Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts, Nominating, Family Law, ADR, and CLE committees. He was elected to the KBA Board of Governors in 2005 representing the Southeast Kansas region and is a Kansas Bar Foundation fellow. He is an approved mediator by the Kansas Supreme Court and an approved domestic case manager in the 11th, 13th, 14th, and 31st Judicial Districts. He is an approved CLE presenter of practical ethics for attorneys. Depew is a 15-year member and past president of the USD 461 Board of Education. He has been a member of the Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB) board of directors and the Kansas Association of School Attorneys. He has spoken at KASB conventions and seminars on school law and negotiation issues and is a member of the National School Boards Association Federal Relations Network. Depew is active in local community and civic organizations and was a co-founder of the Neodesha Educational Foundation and the Neodesha Alumni Association Scholarship Fund. He manages the Griffith Foundation scholarship program and is the managing trustee of the Reece Charitable Trust.
District One Kip A. Kubin, of Kansas City, Mo., is a senior managing member in the law firm of Bottaro, Morefield & Kubin L.C. He has built a successful practice primarily in the areas of workers’ compensation, employment, Native American, administrative, and personal injury law. Kubin has successfully represented clients through all phases of litigation involving jury and court trials on both the state www.ksbar.org