Overview
Joy Merklen advocates for individuals and companies in a variety of high-stakes complex litigation matters.
Before joining Stueve Siegel Hanson, Joy served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Nancy L. Moritz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and to Judge Julie A. Robinson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. These clerkships provided her with invaluable insights into the judicial decision-making process and effective advocacy.
In law school, Joy was the Editor-in-Chief of the Kansas Law Review.
She is fluent in French and Indonesian.
Education
University of Kansas School of Law
J.D., 2020
- Order of the Coif
- Faculty Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement
- Payne & Jones Lawyering Award
- 6 CALI Excellence for the Future Awards
- Kansas Law Review, Editor-in-Chief
- Shook, Hardy & Bacon Scholar for Civil Procedure and Constitutional Law
University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Sociology, with highest distinction, 2016
Admissions
- Kansas
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
- Admission pending in Missouri