Kansas City as a place of study
Kenneth R. Garrett III earned degrees in political science, public administration and law at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. The circuit records his teaching in strategic business planning and policy at Baker University in Kansas. The combination gives a citizen interested in the economics of institutions a concrete place to begin reading his career.
I bring an interest in political economy to the history of public offices. Garrett’s graduate study and teaching give that inquiry a specific local footing.
A Mormon historian with experience in court has a reason to follow the civic career of a lawyer. I claim the ordinary freedoms of speech, press and religious exercise in examining how Missouri selects and entrusts its public officers.
Public duties before Division 2
Garrett represented agencies in civil matters for the Missouri attorney general’s office. At Jackson County’s prosecutor’s office, which he joined in 2004, the work also included contact with community organizations on public safety. He served on the associate bench before his October 2013 appointment as circuit judge. The community work would be hard to see from case captions alone.
Public records and sources