Scott Christie Gyllenborg

SCOTT GYLLENBORG is a criminal defense trial attorney with nearly 30 years of experience trying cases to juries. He is the past president of the 1,700-member Johnson County Bar Association. Scott served two terms as an elected Director of the Association and ten terms as Chairman or Co-Chairman of the Criminal Law Bench/Bar Committee. He is on the Board of Directors of the Johnson County Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the Johnson County Bar Association, and has served as Chairman of the Association’s Herbert W. Walton Annual Bench/Bar Conference. Scott was the 2012 chairman of the Kansas Bar Association Annual Meeting Committee. Scott is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; the American Bar Association and its Criminal Justice and Litigation Sections; the Kansas Bar Association and its Criminal Law Section; The Missouri Bar; and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and its Criminal Law and Federal Court Advocates Committees. He is a Master of the Inn of the Earl E. O’Connor American Inn of Court, and has served as a director of the Inn. Scott is a member of the panel of attorneys qualified by the judges of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas to represent accused persons under the federal Criminal Justice Act. He is a former member of the National Conference of Bar Presidents, and served on its Membership Committee. Scott is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, and the bars of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, and the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. He is a Sustaining Member of both the American Bar Foundation and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, and is a Fellow of both the Kansas Bar Foundation and the Johnson County Bar Foundation. Scott also is a Life Member of The Historical Society of the Tenth Judicial Circuit. In every year beginning in 2005, when the selection was first available, Scott has been selected by his peers to the list of Super Lawyers in a poll conducted by Law and Politics magazine, which asked 23,000 Kansas and Missouri lawyers to nominate the best attorneys they have personally observed in action. Only five percent of all of the lawyers in Kansas and Missouri are named to the list of Super Lawyers. Scott has been selected in two categories: Criminal Defense and DUI/DWI. In 2007, Scott was elected to the Tenth Judicial District Nominating Commission by a vote of the 3,000 members of the Tenth Judicial District of Kansas. The commission nominates to the governor of Kansas candidates for appointment to the Johnson County district court bench. In 1995, during live television coverage of the multiple murder trial of O. J. Simpson, Scott was an on-screen legal analyst for WDAF-TV, the FOX network affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri 1996 to 2001, discussing a wide variety of legal topics. Scott still appears on local television and radio as a legal analyst.

Kansas Bar Foundation; Johnson County Bar Foundation; Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.