TOPEKA, Kan. — Chief Justice Lawton Nuss Thursday appointed Chief Judge Preston Pratt and Chief Judge Joe Dickinson to the Chief Judges Council, which provides the Kansas Supreme Court with ground-level perspective on issues facing Kansas courts.

Pratt is chief judge of the 17th Judicial District, which is composed of Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Smith, Graham, and Osborne counties. He has been a district judge and chief judge since 2011.

Dickinson is chief judge of the 9th Judicial District, which is composed of Harvey and McPherson counties. He has been a district judge since 2002 and chief judge since 2015.

They will serve on the council through December 2020.

Nuss also reappointed three others who have served on the Chief Judges Council since it was created in January 2014:

Other members of the council include Chief Judge Patricia Macke-Dick of the 27th Judicial District which covers Reno County.

Macke Dick has been a district judge since 1989 and chief judge since 2007 and will serve on the council until 2018.