The Kansas Bar Association has hosted a welcome to honor 140 new admittees to the Kansas Bar including Samuel Horton Jeter of Hays. Jeter is a 2005 graduate of Hays High School

The swearing-in ceremony  was held at the Topeka Performing Arts Center at 214 SE 8th Ave. in Topeka. KBA President Lee Smithyman, of Overland Park, presented the newly admitted attorneys with a complimentary, one-year membership to the KBA.

Chief Justice Lawton R. Nuss, of the Kansas Supreme Court, presided over the swearing-in of the new Kansas attorneys. Carol Green, clerk of the Kansas Supreme Court, administered the Kansas Oath and Donna Urbom-McClure, deputy clerk of the Federal Court, administered the Federal Oath.

Representatives from Washburn University School of Law, University of Kansas School of Law, Kansas Women Attorneys Association, Women Attorneys Association of Topeka, Kansas Association of Defense Counsel, Kansas Association for Justice, and Kansas Lawyers Assistance Program were also in attendance.