2011 Kba Officers and Board of Governors Elections
| Publication year | 2011 |
| Pages | 12 |
| Citation | Vol. 80 No. 4 Pg. 12 |
Let Your VOICE be Heard!
2011 KBA Officers and Board of Governors Elections
Kansas Bar Association Districts
Out of State -12
Gerald L. Green, of Hutchinson, graduated from Washburn University in 1973 and the Washburn University School of Law in 1976. In law school, he was an editor of the Washburn Law Journal. Admitted to practice in 1976, Green has been with Gilliland & Hayes in its Hutchinson office since 1981, where his practice is focused on civil litigation, health care law, and employment law.
He handles the defense of professional liability claims for attorneys and insurance agents, the defense of personal injury cases, insurance defense, and business litigation. He advises clients on employment matters and represents employers in the defense of employment claims. Green also advises and represents health care clients regarding a variety of health care-related issues.
Green is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and is a member of both the Kansas Association of Defense Counsel and the Kansas Association of Hospital Attorneys. He is a past president of the KADC and the KAHA. He has served on the American College of Trial Lawyers' Kansas State Committee and is currently the District 8 representative on the Kansas Bar Association Board of Governors. He also serves on both the county and state bar associations' ethics committees.
He is also involved in his community and church, having served on various nonprofit boards in Hutchinson, the Washburn University School of Law Alumni Association, Board of Governors, and his church board. He is on the Hutchinson Community College Legal Assistant Advisory Committee and on the board of the Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center.
Teresa L. Watson is a partner in the law firm of Fisher, Patterson, Sayler & Smith LLP in Topeka. Watson practices in the areas of civil rights litigation, governmental liability and appellate law.
She has served two terms on the KBA Board of Governors (BOG), representing District 5 (Shawnee County); she is a current member of the BOG Executive Committee. Her service to the KBA includes a term as president of the Insurance Law Section, a term as secretary/treasurer and section editor of the Government Lawyers Section, and membership on the Media- Bar Committee, Appellate Law Section, Criminal Law Section, and Young Lawyers Section. She wrote appellate opinion digests for the Journal of the Kansas Bar Association and has published multiple substantive articles in the Journal. She also is a member of the Commission on Professionalism.
Watson has served as president of the Topeka Bar Association, the Kansas Women Attorneys Association, and the Women Attorneys Association of Topeka. She was named to the list of Best Lawyers in America in the area of appellate law in 2010 and 2011. She was named Boss of the Year by the Topeka Legal Professionals in 2010. She received the Outstanding Young Lawyer Award from the Topeka Bar Association in 1998.
She is a magna cum laude graduate of the Washburn University School of Law and a summa cum laude graduate of Washburn University.
Terri S. Bezek is a 1986 graduate of Washburn University School of Law. After graduation, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Earl E. O'Connor. Thereafter, she became an associate and shareholder in McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, where she engaged in a practice with an emphasis in civil rights, employment and ERISA litigation.
In 1995, Bezek took a position with the state of Kansas in Topeka. She currently supervises an office of 16 attorneys. She is a member of the Topeka Bar Association and the Women Attorneys Association of Topeka.
She has been an active member of the Kansas Bar Association. Since 1999 she has served on the Paralegals Committee that focuses on promoting the efficacy and proper use of paralegals in the service of legal clients. The committee also is currently working on developing a paralegal certification program.
In 2000, Bezek was appointed to the Board of Editors of the Journal of the Kansas Bar Association and continues to serve on that Board and has published two articles in the Journal, one on the Kansas Tort Claims Act and one on Conflicts of Law. She served as chair of the Board for three years.
In addition, she has served on the Advisory Committee of the Legal Studies program at Washburn University when the program...
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