TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas judiciary has a far smaller percentage of minorities than the overall state population.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the Office of Judicial Administration says that throughout the state judicial system, racial minorities make up just 3 percent of the 287 judges at the district, appellate and Supreme Court levels. There are four African-American judges, five Hispanics, and one Asian-American.

But the most recent census estimates that 23 percent of the state’s population isn’t white.

Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission chairwoman Anne Burke calls it a “terrible situation.” The commission receives applications for appointments to the state’s highest court and provides three names to the governor, who makes the final appointment.

Burke says part of the problem is that very few minority lawyers apply.