About Us - Current President
Mikel L. Stout

Mikel L. Stout was raised on a farm in the Flint Hills of Kansas.  He graduated from Kansas State University in 1958 with a degree in Animal Husbandry and the University of Kansas School of Law in 1961.  After two years in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, U.S. Army, he joined the firm of Foulston Siefkin LLP, in Wichita, Kansas, where he has practiced law since the fall of 1963.  He presently concentrates his practice in the area of business litigation.

He has been selected as Fellow, Regent and President of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Mr. Stout was appointed a member of the Judicial Qualifications Commission by the Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court in January 1984, and has served on that Commission since, being chairman from 1994-97.  He served as president of the Kansas Bar Foundation in 1991-93 and received its Robert K. Weary Award in 2006.  He served as president of the Kansas Association of Defense Counsel in 1983-84 and received its William Kahrs Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.  He served as president of the Wichita Bar Association in 1987-88 and received its Howard C. Kline Distinguished Service Award.  He is a member of the Kansas Bar Association and a recipient of its Professionalism Award in 1997.  He was co-chair of the Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group for the United States District Court for the District of Kansas until its conclusion in 1995.  He is a trustee of The Supreme Court Historical Society and a Fellow of the America Bar Foundation.

Mr. Stout is listed in both Best Lawyers of America and Chambers USA as a leading general commercial litigation lawyer in the United States and is one of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America.

In the community, he serves on the Board of the Livestock and Meat Industry Council, supporting the Animal Science Department at Kansas State University, and on the Board of the Kansas Park Trust, supporting the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve.  He is a past president of Wichita Festivals, Inc., 1978-79; past Captain of the Wichita Wagonmasters, 1982-93; and past Admiral of the Wichita River Festival, 2001.

LeAnn and Mike Stout have been married since 1958, have raised five children and are actively engaged in spoiling 12 grandchildren.