at Stevens & Brand, LLP
Kate Marples Simpson is a partner at Stevens & Brand, L.L.P., in Lawrence, Kansas. She previously clerked for the Honorable Carlos Murguia of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas in Kansas City, Kansas and for the Honorable K. Gary Sebelius for the United States District Court in Topeka, Kansas. Kate graduated from KU Law in 2014, where she started the KU FBA Student Division, and KU in 2011 with a BA in Germanic Languages and Literatures. Kate was awarded the Outstanding Chapter Leader for a Large Chapter for 2020 for her year as President of the Chapter for the Districts of Kansas and Western Missouri. Kate is currently an FBA Circuit Vice President for the 10th Circuit, the Secretary/Treasurer of the Civil Rights Section, Secretary of the Labor & Employment Law Section, and a member of the FBA Judiciary Division’s Federal Judicial Law Clerk Committee.