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Sylvia Penner was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1976. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology in 1999 from Tabor College. While at Tabor, Ms. Penner was a member of both the varsity basketball and soccer teams, and served on the college’s Student Senate. Ms. Penner received her Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas in 2004.  While at Kansas, she served as a Student Ambassador and worked as a Law Clerk to the District Court for the Third Judicial District of Kansas.

After law school, Ms. Penner was an Assistant District Attorney for the Eighteenth Judicial District of Kansas, where she prosecuted criminal actions and argued before the Kansas Court of Appeals. As a prosecutor, she was a member of the National District Attorney’s Association, the Kansas County and District Attorney’s Association, and served as an instructor at the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center. Ms. Penner joined Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson, & Kitch, L.L.C. in 2008 and practices in the areas of Workers Compensation and Civil Litigation.

Ms. Penner is a member of the Wichita and Kansas Bar Associations. She is currently a member of the Young Lawyers Association, Wichita Women Attorneys Association, Criminal Practice Committee, Law in Education Committee, Diversity Committee, is a mentor in the Grow Your Own Lawyer Program, and was recently named an Associate in the Wesley E. Brown American Inn of Court. Ms. Penner also serves as an adjunct professor for Tabor College-Wichita in the Master of Business Administration program in the area of business ethics.

Ms. Penner is active in the Wichita community, serving on both the Environmental Leadership Council and Wichita Initiative to Renew the Environment.