Richard A. "Rick" Macias

Won re-election as Sedgwick County district judge, Division 8, without an opponent. He got 101,469 votes to 1,281 write-ins.

November 8, 2022

Source: sedgwickcounty.org

Was endorsed by Kansans for Life, an anti-abortion group, for re-election as a Sedgwick County district judge.

October 27, 2022

Source: kmuw.org

Won election as Sedgwick County district judge, Division 8, without an opponent. He got 112,776 votes, or 97 percent, against write-ins.

November 6, 2018

Source: sedgwick.gov

Argued for the Adoption Centre of Kansas before the Kansas Supreme Court in a Native American child placement case. The court ruled against his client, saying a birth mother's wishes alone cannot override the Indian Child Welfare Act's placement order (In re T.S.W.).

May 4, 2012

Source: kscourts.gov

Was appointed by Gov. Sam Brownback to the Kansas Board of Healing Arts, which licenses doctors and other health care workers. His term ran through June 2014.

July 7, 2011

Source: motherjones.com

Was rated by 24 lawyers in a 2018 Wichita Bar Association survey. 18 agreed he is fair and 15 agreed he is ethical; 4 disagreed that he is ethical.

July 26, 2018Favorable on Impartiality

Source: kansas.com

Was appointed by Gov. Sam Brownback as a Sedgwick County district judge, filling the seat of retiring Judge Timothy Lahey. He was then a Sedgwick County Court judge in private law practice.

December 6, 2017Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: web.archive.org

Represented adoptive parents who appealed a $5,222.77 order to pay the lawyer for a birth father. The Kansas Court of Appeals upheld the fee award (In re F.).

January 23, 2015Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: kscourts.gov

Represented the Adoption Centre of Kansas as its lawyer in a Kansas Court of Appeals adoption case. The court upheld ending a birth father's parental rights (In re M.R.C.).

October 2, 2009Favorable on Legal Competence

Source: kscourts.gov