- Eric Rosen
in 2005.
Personal life
Eric S. Rosen was born
May 25 ,1953 inTopeka ,Kansas . He earned his Bachelor's and a Master's Degree with honors at theUniversity of Kansas and his J.D. atWashburn University School of Law in 1984. He is married to Elizabeth A. (Libby) Rosen and has four children, named Paul (32), Jacob (30), Mark (26), and Thomas (19). Paul attendedKansas University , while Jacob and Mark areKansas State graduates. Eric Rosen also has three grandchildren. [cite web | title =Project Vote-Smart Biography | url =http://votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=MKS11026 | format = English | accessdate =2007-03-09] He's an active member in theTopeka High School Booster Club, Indian Woods Neighborhood Association, Temple Beth Shalom, andYMCA .Professional Life
Before attending
law school Rosen worked as asocial work er for Topeka Public Schools for 3 years and chaired the social work department for 2 years. After graduating from Washburn he became an assistantpublic defender . Rosen later served as an assistant district attorney inShawnee County, Kansas and eventually took the office of associate general counsel to the Kansas Securities Commission before entering the private practice of law in 1990. [cite web | title =Office of Judicial Administration Press Release | url =http://www.kscourts.org/news/newsre05.htm | format = English | accessdate =2007-03-09]In 1993 Rosen took his first judgeship serving as a State District Court Judge for Shawnee County. He was appointed
Chief Justice to the Kansas Sentencing Commission in July 2002. During this time Rosen was a member of Koch Crime Commission, lectured at the Menninger School of Law and Psychiatry, 2004-2005 President of the Sam A. CrowInns of Court and was appointed Presidential commission charged with commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Brown v. The Board of Education decision. [cite web | title =Kansas Supreme Court Biography | url =http://www.kscourts.org/supct/esr_scj.htm | format = English | accessdate =2007-03-09]In 2005 Governor Kathleen Sebelius appointed Rosen, from a field of twelve applicants, to the Kansas Supreme Court, to replace Justice Robert Gernon who died from cancer. [cite web | title =Fewer State Bar Members Belly Up For Court Vacancy | url =http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20050508/ai_n14624056 | format = English | accessdate =2007-03-09] He will face his first retention vote in the 2008 election.
Awards
* Martin Luther King Living the Dream Humanitarian Award (2002)
* Attorney General's Victim's Service Award for Outstanding Judge (2000)
* "Topeka Capital Journal" Kansan of Distinction For Law (1999)References
External links
* [http://www.kscourts.org/supct/esr_scj.htm Official Biography]
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