Members and friends of the Edwin A. Schumacher Marine Corps League, Detachment 740 in Hays will honor the Kansas Supreme Court chief justice at a ceremony this month.

Chief Justice Lawton Nuss will be recognized with an honorary membership to the detachment during a ceremony at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, at the American Legion, 13th and Canterbury. The public is invited, but seating is limited.

Nuss served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a combat engineering officer with the Fleet Marine Force Pacific prior to attending law school at the University of Kansas. Nuss was appointed to the Kansas Supreme Court by Gov. Bill Graves in August 2002 and became chief justice in 2010.