Randall L. Hodgkinson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

While at the Arizona State University College of Law, Professor Hodgkinson served on the law journal as associate editor and was named a member of the Order of the Coif.  After graduation, he served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Sheldon H. Weisberg, Judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One.  A Kansas native, he returned to practice as a public defender—in the Wichita trial office for a year and afterwards in the Kansas Appellate Defender Office in Topeka.  He has represented clients in hundreds of felony appeals before the Kansas Appellate Courts and served as Deputy Appellate Defender from 2001 to 2006.

Professor Hodgkinson is currently appointed in a joint endeavor between Washburn University School of Law and the Kansas Appellate Defender Offiice teaching Criminal Appellate Advocacy, where law students work, under his supervision, on felony appeals assigned to the Kansas Appellate Defender Office.  Prior to his appointment to this position, he served as an adjunct professor with the trial advocacy course at Washburn Law.

Professor Hodgkinson is licensed to practice in Kansas, Missouri, and Arizona, before the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, and before the United States Supreme Court.  He is a member of the Kansas Judicial Council Appellate Procedure Advisory Committee and is a co-chair of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Tenth Circuit Amicus Committee.