"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER - Nobel Prize-winning philosopher
THE LAWYERS OF GYLLENBORG & DUNN believe that lawyers who participate in professional activities will improve themselves, their profession, and their local community.
SCOTT GYLLENBORG is Past President of the 1,700-member Johnson County Bar Association. He served as the Association's President in 2006-2007 and as its President-elect in 2005-2006. Scott served two terms as an elected Director of the Association, and seven terms as 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 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 member of the National Conference of Bar Presidents, and serves 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 each of the last five years, 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.
Scott is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law in Lawrence, teaching Trial Advocacy to second and third year law students. He is a regular speaker at continuing legal education (CLE) courses in criminal law and criminal procedure. In March 2003 and December 2005, he presented CLE seminars on strategies for handling DUI cases. Also in 2005, Scott presented two CLE seminars sponsored by the Johnson County Bar Association on the subject of ethics for criminal defense lawyers. Each year he presents a continuing legal education program to members of the Earl E. O'Connor American Inn of Court.
In 2005, Scott testified before the Kansas Senate and House Judiciary Committees in support of legislation designed to ensure low-cost public electronic access to state court records. That legislation became law in 2006.
Scott Gyllenborg has been the City Prosecutor for the City of Mission Hills, Kansas since 1996.
In addition to his activities in the legal profession, Scott is involved in his local community. He remains involved with his alma mater, The Barstow School, an independent co-educational day school founded in 1884 in Kansas City, Missouri. Scott served Barstow as a trustee of the school for six years, as a member of the alumni association board of directors for four years, and as a class representative for the Class of 1974. He was chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Barstow board of trustees during the capital campaign which funded the design and construction of the new Lower School buildings. He is a member of the Jayhawks for Higher Education Committee of The University of Kansas, and is a member of the Leawood Chamber of Commerce. Scott has served on the board of directors of the Olathe Arts Alliance, and the Olathe Region United Way. He is a member of both American Mensa and Mensa International, as well as the BMW Motorcycle Owners of America.
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. He was a weekly live guest on WDAF's Morning Show from 1996 to 2001, discussing a wide variety of legal topics. Scott still appears on local television and radio as a legal analyst.
CHRISTINA DUNN is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, the Kansas Bar Association, the Johnson County Bar Association, The Missouri Bar, and the Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. She is a member of the Grievance & Ethics Committee of the Johnson County Bar Association. For years Christina was an instructor at the Johnson County Law Enforcement Academy, teaching criminal law and procedure to law enforcement officers. She continued to teach at the invitation of the academy even after she had joined Gyllenborg & Dunn as a criminal defense lawyer. Christina was a member of the Junior League of Kansas City.
MICHELLE DURRETT is a member of the Kansas Bar Association, Johnson County Bar Association and the Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. She also is a member of the board of directors of the Shepherd's Center of KC Central, a volunteer community service center located in Kansas City, Missouri.