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Judge Russell D. Canaday is the Chief Judge of the Fourteenth
Judicial District. Judge Canaday was elected to Division Three of the 14th Judicial District Court and took the bench in January
of 1989. He was appointed Chief Judge in January, 2006.
Judge Canaday graduated from Washburn University of Topeka in 1975 with a
Bachelor’s Degree in History and Political Science. He received his
law degree from Washburn Law School in 1978. He served as an Assistant
Sedgwick County Counselor from June 1978 to September 1979.
Thereafter, he maintained a private practice in Montgomery County that
included, child support enforcement work for the Kansas State Department of
Social & Rehabilitative Services (SRS) from 1979 to 1989, and a term as
Assistant Montgomery County Attorney from 1985 to 1989.
Judge Canaday is a
member of the Kansas District Judges’ Association and the Kansas Bar
Association.
 Judge Roger Gossard graduated from the
University of Oklahoma in 1966 with a B.A., and his Juris Doctorate in
1969. He has served as a District Court Judge for the Fourteenth Judicial
District Division Two since January 2003.
Judge Gossard served on active duty as a United States
Air Force Judge Advocate from June 1970 to April 1974 and as a USAF Reserve
Judge Advocate until 1998. Judge Gossard was admitted to the Kansas Bar in
1969 and was in private practice in Coffeyville for 28 years.
Judge Gossard is a member of the Kansas District Judges
Association, Southeast Kansas Bar Association, First United Methodist Church
(Coffeyville), American Red Cross Pioneer Chapter Board of Directors,
Coffeyville Kiwanis Club, Scoutmaster Boy Scout Troop 47, American Legion
Post 20 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1022.
 Judge F. William Cullins
is a Montgomery County native. He is a graduate of Caney Valley High
School in Caney, Kansas. Judge Cullins attended Emporia State
University and received his law-degree from the University of Oklahoma.
Prior to taking the bench,
Judge Cullins worked in private practice in Caney and Coffeyville.
Judge Cullins also served as the Assistant County Attorney for Montgomery
County from 1997 till 2000, when he was elected County Attorney for
Montgomery County. Judge Cullins served as the Montgomery County
Attorney from 2001 until April of 2006, when he was
was appointed to the vacant District Court Judge Division One position
by Governor Sebilious.
Judge Cullins is licensed to
practice law in both Kansas and Oklahoma. Judge Cullins is a member of
the American Bar Association, the Kansas Bar Association and the Oklahoma
Bar Association in 2006.
 Judge David A. Casement is presently the District Magistrate Judge in the
14th
Judicial District, which includes Chautauqua and Montgomery Counties.
He was reelected to Magistrate Judge of the 14th Judicial District in
January of 2001. He
previously served in the same position from July 1987 until January 1997.
Judge Casement resides in Chautauqua County, but handles magistrate
dockets in Coffeyville and Independence each week, including adoption,
probate, limited civil, small claims and traffic cases.
In Chautauqua County he hears criminal, juvenile and care & treatment
cases.
Judge Casement’s
education includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science from Kansas
State University, cum laude, and several courses at the National Judicial
College in Reno, Nevada
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