TOPEKA — Ellis County District Judge Ed Bouker is among two Kansas Court of Appeals judges and three district court judges appointed to hear a disciplinary case against former Attorney General Phill Kline.

The judges appointed Monday will sit with two state Supreme Court justices to review the case. The high court’s five other justices removed themselves last month, citing their previous knowledge of the allegations.

An ethics complaint accuses Kline and former subordinates of misleading other officials to further investigations of abortion providers. Kline strongly disputes the allegations.

Supreme Court Justice Dan Biles, one of the two remaining to hear the case, named the replacements.

In addition to Bouker, the judges are Court of Appeals Judges Karen Arnold-Burger and Henry W. Green Jr. and district judges Bruce Gatterman, Pawnee County, and Michael Malone, Douglas County.