Good riddance in Kansas City

Missouri appeals judge Ulrich retiring from bench
The Associated Press

A state appeals court judge in Kansas City said today that he was leaving the bench to teach at a law school in Virginia.

Judge Robert Ulrich said he was resigning Aug. 1 from the Missouri Appeals Courts’ Western District.

Then-Gov. John Ashcroft appointed Ulrich to the bench in 1989. While on the appeals court, Ulrich wrote more than 1,000 opinions.

Previously, Ulrich spent more than seven years as a federal prosecutor.

In 2001, he chaired the state’s redistricting commission, a panel of six appeals judges that redrew the boundaries of Missouri’s legislative districts. That was the first time a judicial panel has redrawn maps for both chambers, because citizens panels for the House and Senate failed to agree on redistricting plans.

Ulrich will be a law professor at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., starting this fall.

A St. Louis native, Ulrich earned his bachelor’s degree in 1963 from William Jewell College in Liberty. He was then on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps for about three years and returned to earn his law degree in 1969 from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He later earned two master’s degrees in law. Ulrich remained in the reserves until he retired in 1994.

Ulrich started his legal career by serving as a law clerk to a judge on the Jackson County Circuit Court.

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Good riddance to bad rubbish

It is a few steps up from Liberty University

William Jewell is a religious school but it doesn't seem to be full of talibornagains. I am a teacher and I have had several student teachers from William Jewell. They have been well prepared and not the least bit overly religious.

And I wouldn't class him as "overly religious" unless it might involve whether to drink a Guinness chilled or at room temperature.

Maybe it used to be more religious than it is now. But we have quite a few of their education majors in our school and seems like they do like to party, if you know what I mean. Most of them are also pretty liberal too.

My wife's niece is starting school there in the fall. She was a member of her high school's "Young Democrats" club and her family are very progressive-minded and active in the Lawrence political scene. I don't think they'd let her attend William Jewel if it was overtly religious.