Eric S. Rosen
Eric S. Rosen (born March 25, 1953) is a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court. He was appointed to the court by Governor Kathleen Sebelius in 2005. Early life and education Rosen was born May 25, 1953, in Topeka, Kansas. He earned his Bachelor's and a master's degree with honors at the University of Kansas and his Juris Doctor at Washburn University School of Law in 1984. Career Before attending law school, Rosen worked as a social worker for Topeka Public Schools for three years and chaired the social work department for two years. After graduating from Washburn he became an assistant public defender. Rosen later served as an assistant district attorney in Shawnee 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. In 1993 Rosen took his first judgeship on the District Court 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, 2004-05 President of the Sam A. Crow Inns of Court and was appointed to