12th Judicial District selects district magistrate judge

TOPEKA--The 12th Judicial District Nominating Commission has selected Starla Borg Nelson, Jamestown, as District Magistrate Judge to succeed Judge John Eyer, who died, it was announced in Topeka today.

She was selected following public interviews conducted in Belleville Tuesday.

Nelson has been in private practice of law in Jamestown since 2009, during which she has primarily practiced in criminal, domestic, juvenile offender, and child in need of care cases. She also served as city prosecutor for the City of Delphos in 2011.

Admitted to the bar in 2004, she began her legal career with Foulston Siefkin, LLP, in Wichita. Before opening her Jamestown office, she served as an attorney in the Salina office of the Kansas State Board of Indigents’ Defense Services from 2006-2008, and then with Condray & Thompson, LLC, in Concordia.

Nelson received her law degree, Magna Cum Laude, from the Washburn University School of Law in 2004,  and her undergraduate degree from Kansas State University in 2001.