Caleb Stegall was born on September 20,1971 and is an American attorney and writer who resides in Perry, Kansas.
14 Facts About Caleb Stegall
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Caleb Stegall has served as the district attorney for Jefferson County, Kansas, and chief counsel to Governor Sam Brownback before he was appointed to the Kansas Court of Appeals.
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In Douglas County, Caleb Stegall attended and graduated from Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Kansas.
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When Caleb Stegall was appointed, the Kansas Democratic Party issued a release criticizing Brownback for the appointment because of his connection to the disbarred attorney Phill Kline.
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Caleb Stegall represented the State of Kansas in litigation with environmentalists over the permitting of coal-fired power plants.
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Caleb Stegall represented eight American missionaries detained in Haiti following the 2010 Haiti earthquake who were accused by Haitian officials of trying to take children to the Dominican Republic without proper documentation.
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In 2008, Caleb Stegall represented a group of residents against the public financing of casino operations in Kansas City, Kansas.
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Caleb Stegall has worked as general counsel for Americans for Prosperity and on the executive committee of Audubon of Kansas.
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On January 12,2009, Caleb Stegall began his first term as Jefferson County District Attorney.
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Caleb Stegall has been characterized by the blog Firedoglake as a "rising religious-right political star," has been suggested as a possible candidate for US Senate in 2010 by Rod Dreher, and has been described as representing a new path for the Republican Party in the post-Bush years.
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In 2022, Caleb Stegall left his adjunct position at the University of Kansas School of Law, citing handling of a controversy over a conservative campus speaker.
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Caleb Stegall is a ruling elder in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
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Caleb Stegall has been described as a "lifelong conservative Presbyterian" whose faith and life are "strongly countercultural to mainstream Evangelicalism" although he still identifies himself as an evangelical.
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In 2003, Caleb Stegall created and founded, with others, an online journal of religion, politics, and culture called The New Pantagruel.