Special Announcements 

October 31, 2007

District Attorney Nola Foulston is pleased to announce Deputy District Attorney Ron Paschal has been recognized as Kansas Prosecutor of the Year for 2007 by the Kansas County and District Attorneys Association. Mr. Paschal was given the award on October 21^st for his dedication to prosecution and the children in Kansas. Mr. Paschal has been consistent in his continual efforts to improve the juvenile justice system within our state. He is currently chairman of the Child Advocacy Center Task Force, serves on the Kansas Supreme Court Task Force on Permanency Planning and heads up the Juvenile Division of the Office of the District Attorney. 

Mr. Paschal is a long standing member of the Prosecutor Grievance and Ethics Committee for the Kansas Disciplinary Administrators Office, serves as part of the Wichita Bar Association Ethics Committee and is the Ethics Coordinator for the Office of the District Attorney for the Eighteenth Judicial District of Kansas.

October 30, 2007

                      

On October 1, 2007, Assistant District Attorney Margaret McIntire was recognized for her years of dedicated service as a prosecutor of domestic violence cases in Sedgwick County. The award, given by Catholic Charities Harbor House, was held in connection with their annual Candlelight Vigil at Botanica. This event is to raise awareness of domestic violence and to honor those who have survived, those who have lost their lives, and those who are living with physical, emotional or sexual abuse every day.

ADA Margaret "Maggie" McIntire has been with the Office of the District Attorney, 18th Judicial District for 10 years.
 

 

October 15, 2007

Juvenile staff member Dawn Odenheimer Lindshield barely had the ink dry on the marriage certificate when her husband was deployed to Iraq…. Sgt Tim Lindshield, is a reservist with the US Marine Corps based out of Wichita.  He is one of 14 Marines who volunteered to do a tour beginning in May 2007.  Dawn and Tim moved their wedding plans up and on May 18, 2007 they were married by Judge Harold Flaigle, District Court Judge, Juvenile Division.

In late May, Tim left for training with the 2^nd Marine Expeditionary Force (2MEF) at Camp Lejeune, NC.  On August 29^th,  those forces [2MEF] left for Al-Taqaddum, Iraq.  Tim is a platoon sergeant in the Maintenance Company, which helps keep all the communications gear up and running for all our Marines out there. 

Happily, he will be returning in April of 2008, at which time Dawn and Tim will celebrate their first anniversary with a more traditional wedding ceremony!

 

June 12, 2007

Child Advocacy Center Task Force announces the Child Advocacy Center of Sedgwick County. 

Announcement by Deputy District Attorney Ron Paschal, Executive Board President

 

District Attorney Nola Foulston's introduction of Governor Kathleen Sebelius

 

May 21, 2007

 

HOME TOWN HERO

 

Christopher Randle, an attorney and Assistant District Attorney in our office is on active duty in IRAQ.  He was recently promoted to Captain.  We are certainly proud of him.  The community should be too.  Upon his completion of his tour of duty, he will be returning to the Office of the District Attorney  as a prosecutor.  We miss him and think of him often.  He keeps us updated from Headquarters on his progress (except for any confidential matters) and he is just a great guy.

 

November 8, 2005

District Attorney Nola Tedesco Foulston has been selected as a 2005 “Super Lawyer,” an annual listing of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Super Lawyers are selected by a multi-step selection process that takes approximately nine months. The foundation of the process is a survey sent to all active lawyers in the region (Missouri and Kansas) who have been in practice at least five years. In addition to the survey, Law & Politics, a division of Key Professional Media, Inc., researches credentials of nominees, assembles a blue ribbon review panel of leading attorneys from each practice area, directly contacts lawyers and law firm representatives, verifies data and conducts a good-standing review of candidates. Just five percent of the lawyers in Missouri and Kansas are named Super Lawyers. Nola Foulston is the only Kansas Criminal Prosecution Super Lawyer.

 

March 25, 2005

The Office of the District Attorney is pleased to announce that District Attorney Nola Tedesco Foulston has been accepted as an Associate Member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. 

The American Academy of Forensic Sciences is a nonprofit professional society devoted to the improvement, the administration and the achievement of justice through the application of science to the processes of law.  

The AAFS consists of ten sections representing a wide range of forensic specialties. The members are physicians, attorneys, dentists, toxicologists, physical anthropologists, document examiners, psychiatrists, engineers, criminalists, educators, and others who practice, study, and perform research in the forensic sciences. They represent all 50 United States, Canada, and 50 other countries worldwide.

 

October 20, 2004

District Attorney Nola Foulston is pleased to announce Kevin O'Connor, Deputy District Attorney of the Criminal Division, has been recognized as Kansas Prosecutor of the Year by the Kansas County and District Attorneys Association. Mr. O'Connor was recognized for his dedication to the prosecution field and his relentless work on behalf of victims and citizens of Sedgwick County and the State of Kansas.

Deputy O'Connor was honored yesterday during a luncheon held in conjunction with the Kansas County and District Attorneys Fall Conference and received a standing ovation from his peers who were present from counties across the State.

September 10, 2004

District Attorney Nola Tedesco Foulston announces the success of the Juvenile Diversion Program School Supply Drive. Juveniles participating the the District Attorney’s Juvenile Diversion Program conducted the Community Service Drive resulting in 1,675 items being donated to the Salvation Army. 

The Juvenile Diversion Program is a privilege extended to first time offenders that qualify allowing them to accept responsibility for their crimes and avoid a conviction on their record. The program incorporates enforcement of the law, promotion of community values by holding youthful offenders accountable for their actions, compensation of victims and reformation of offenders’ behavior.

September 9, 2004

District Attorney Nola Foulston is pleased to announce Sandy Charbonneau, Assistant District Attorney - CINC Division, has been recognized as the Shawnee Regional Prevention and Recovery Services' Partner - 2004. Sandy is recognized with this award for her excellent work and dedicated services to the Kansas Methamphetamine Prevention Project.

August 6, 2004

District Attorney Nola Tedesco Foulston announces the appointment of Ron Paschal, Chief Attorney of the Juvenile Division of the District Attorney's Office, by Justice McFarland to the Supreme Court Task Force on Permanency Planning.  The Permanency Planning Committee is a very active committee responsible for advising the Supreme Court on children's permanency issues, advising the Office of Judicial Administration (OJA), and providing advice on the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) requirements as well as providing guidance for the court improvement grant. The committee is comprised of six judges among other professionals.  The Committee meets in Topeka the second Friday of each month September through May.  We are so fortunate to have a quality prosecutor on our staff to assist the Supreme Court in making laws to protect the children of Wichita and in Kansas.

November 3, 2003

District Attorney Nola Tedesco Foulston, 18th Judicial District of Kansas, was honored to receive the award of KANSAS PROSECUTOR OF THE YEAR from the Kansas County and District Attorneys Association at their annual meeting on October 21st in Overland Park, Kansas. Foulston, one of six District Attorneys in the state of Kansas [99 county attorneys cover the rural areas of the state] was awarded this honor for her outstanding contributions to prosecution leadership in Kansas and dedicated service to the citizens of the State of Kansas.

September 12, 2003

Deputy District Attorney Debra S. Peterson, Chief of the District Attorney’s Appellate Division, has been nominated and elected to a prestigious position of the American Bar Association. 

Ms. Peterson, who has been Chief Counsel of the District Attorney’s Appellate Division since 1989, was elected this summer at a meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, to the Executive Committee of the Council of Appellate Lawyers, that is a standing committee of the Appellate Judges Conference of the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association. Noteworthy among her many accomplishments, Deputy Peterson crafted the legal arguments ultimately adopted by the United States Supreme Court in the case of State v. Leroy Hendrix where the constitutionality of the Kansas sexual predator law was upheld.

 July 7, 2003

District Attorney Nola Tedesco Foulston announces today that Sharon A. Werner has accepted the position of Chief District Attorney, Civil Division as head of the Consumer Fraud and Economic Crime Division. This position was vacated by John J. Kisner, Jr. upon his appointment as a judge.

Sharon Anne Werner, a native of Spearville, Kansas, graduated from the University of Kansas with a journalism degree and from Washburn Law School. She has specialized in civil litigation since her appointment in 1978 as an Assistant United States Attorney. Ms. Werner's career encompasses legal areas of personal injury, contract, employment, product liability, business and commercial litigation. Her career also includes service in both the public and private sectors of law practice, having served as a partner in private firms and as a prosecutor for the City of Wichita, State of Kansas and District Attorney's Office for the 18th Judicial District of Kansas.

During her tenure with the U.S. Attorney's Office, her professional excellence as a litigator was recognized by the Department of Justice with the John Marshall Award for the defense of the United States in cases arising out of the Titan missile mishap near Rock, Kansas.

Sharon Werner has been active in the community including serving on the Commission of the Status of Women, Board of Directors for the Wichita Area Sexual Assault Center and for the Independent Living Center.

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