HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County Republican Party has approved the appointment of Deputy Reno County District Attorney Thomas R. Stanton to be the next district attorney for the 27th Judicial District. Stanton will take over for current DA Keith Schroeder, who will retire on June 1.
Stanton has served as the deputy district attorney for the past 19 ½ years. Last fall, Stanton was chosen to receive the Kansas County and District Attorneys Association 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award and has previously been named the organization’s 2005 Prosecutor of the Year.
Stanton is a 1988 graduate of the University of Kansas. He obtained his law degree from the University of Kansas in 1990. Before attending law school, Tom worked as a police officer in Farmington, New Mexico, and at the University of Kansas.
Before joining the Reno County District Attorney’s Office in 2001, he served 10 years with the Saline County Attorney’s Office, serving five of those years as first assistant county attorney.
Stanton has been a two-term president of the KCDAA, the section head for the drug section of the KCDAA, on the board of directors for the Kansas Association for Drug Endangered Children, a member of the Top Gun Advisory Council and chief of its legal staff, an officer and board member for the Kansas Prosecutor Foundation, and a special assistant United States attorney.