No one objected when Mark V. Bodine ’85 was admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.
This April, he was one of 29 Washburn University School of Law alumni to be sworn in during a ceremony in Washington, D.C.
To qualify for admission to the bar of the highest court in the United States, an applicant must have been admitted to practice in the highest court of a state, commonwealth, territory or possession, or the District of Columbia for a period of three years immediately before the date of application.
“It was an honor,” says Bodine. “I would say the most special part for me was that the court only allows one witness to the ceremony, and I got to take my 10-year-old son.” He adds that the trip to the nation’s capital was timely for his son, who was studying government in school.
After the swearing-in ceremony, Bodine and others in the group attended a luncheon at the historic Army and Navy Club with the guest speaker William Suter, U.S. Supreme Court clerk. They then toured the Pentagon.
Bodine practices law in the Kansas City area.
