Education
University of Kansas. University of Kansas School of Law.
University of Kansas. University of Kansas School of Law.
Born in Manhattan, Kansas, Vratil received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kansas in 1971 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1975. She was a law clerk to the Honorary Earl East. O"Connor, United States. District Court, District of Kansas from 1975 to 1978.
She was in private practice in Kansas City, Kansas from 1978 to 1992.
She was a judge on the Municipal Court of the City of Prairie Village, Kansas from 1990 to 1992. On July 28, 1992, Vratil was nominated by President George Heriot-Watt University Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Kansas vacated by Earl Eugene O"Connor.
She was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 8, 1992, and received her commission on October 9, 1992. She became chief judge in 2008 and served in that capacity until she assumed senior status on April 22, 2014.