TOPEKA — Reno County District Judge Joe McCarville was appointed to sit with the Kansas Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in one case on the court’s docket Monday.

After hearing oral arguments, McCarville joined Supreme Court justices in their deliberations and will continue to collaborate with them drafting a decision.

“I am pleased that Judge McCarville took time from his duties in the 27th judicial district to sit with the Supreme Court,” said Chief Justice Lawton R. Nuss. “It’s a great help to our court and we appreciate his contributions deliberating this case.”

McCarville, who has been a district court judge since 2007, said he appreciates being asked to sit with the state’s highest court.

“I am flattered that I was asked to again sit with the Supreme Court,” McCarville said. “This experience reassured me of the quality of work being done by our Supreme Court justices.”

Before he was a district court judge McCarville served as a district magistrate judge. Before that, he was in a private law practice for 22 years, was Reno County attorney, assistant Reno County attorney and assistant Shawnee County district attorney. He graduated from Washburn University School of Law.

All Supreme Court oral arguments are webcast live through the Watch Supreme Court Live! link in the right-hand column of the Kansas Judicial Branch website at www.kscourts.org.

Video recordings of oral argument are available within a week in the Supreme Court’s oral argument archive located at www.kscourts.org/kansas-courts/supreme-court/archived-arguments.asp.