Background
Meeks, Cordell David was born on December 17, 1942 in Kansas City, Kansas, United States. Son of Cordell David and Cellastine Dora (Brown) Meeks.
Meeks, Cordell David was born on December 17, 1942 in Kansas City, Kansas, United States. Son of Cordell David and Cellastine Dora (Brown) Meeks.
Postgraduate, University of Pennsylvania, 1968.
Bar: Kansas 1968, United States District Court Kansas 1968, United States Court Military Appeals 1971, United States Army Court Military Review 1990, United States Court Appeals (10th circuit) 1971, Supreme Court of the United States Court 1971. Staff counsel Wyandotte County Legal Aid Society, Kansas City, Kansas, 1968-1970. Special assistant attorney general State of Kansas, Kansas City, 1975.
Senior partner Meeks, Sutherland, and McIntosh, Kansas City, 1972-1981.
Judge Municipal Court Kansas City, 1976-1981. District court judge 29th Judicial District Kansas, Kansas City, since 1981.
Faculty National Institute Trial Advocacy, 1987. Member Governors committee crime prevention, Kansas, 1984-1989.
Member Kansas Committee on Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, 1987-1991.
President Wyandotte County Law Library Committee, 1982-1983. State judgeadv. general and senior military judge Kansas National Guard, 1989. President Wyandotte County chapter American Red Cross, 1971-1973, Mental Health Association, 1981-1983, Legal Aid Society, 1971-1973, Economics Opportunity Foundation, Incorporated., Kansas City, 1981-1983.
Board directors Family and Childrens Service, 1983-1987, United Way, Wyandotte County, 1982, chairman, 1990-1991.
President Substance Abuse Center Eastern Kansas, 1985-1987. Chairman Midwest Bioethics Center, 1995-1997.
Chairman national board directors Kansas U. Alumni Association, 1997. Company-chair Greater Kansas City region National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1993-1997, national board of trustees, 1990.
Member American Library Association (national board directors 1997), Kansas Municipal Judges Association (president 1980-1981), U. Kansas Law Society (president of the board Governors 1984-1985), National Conference State Trial Judges (ethics and professional responsibility committee 1987), American Judicature Society, American Judges Association (education Committee 1986-1987), American Bar Association, Kansas Bar Association (board editors Kansas Bar Journal 1991-1997, president military law section 1993-1994), American Royal Association (Board of Governors 1981-1987), Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Kansas City (president 1989-1990), American Lung Association Kansas (president 1988-1989). Member African Methodist Episcopal Church. Lodge: Optimists (board directors 1977).
Married Mary Ann Sutherland, July 15, 1967;1 child, Cordell Doctorate. III. Bachelor of Arts, University Kansas, 1964, Juris Doctor, 1967. 1 child, Cordell Doctorate. III. Bachelor of Arts, University Kansas.