Smith, Burnett & Larson, LLC
Larned, Kansas

Ronald D. Smith

Prior to joining the firm in 2005, Ron Smith served as General Counsel to the Kansas Bar Association and, most recently, was counsel for the Community Development division of the Kansas Department of Commerce. He is a Navy veteran during the Vietnam conflict, a 1973 Kansas Wesleyan graduate and 1976 graduate of Washburn University School of Law. After law school he practiced briefly in Great Bend, then served as Deputy Secretary of Administration for Governor John Carlin While at the bar association Smith was responsible for the association's lobbying program and its ethics and professionalism programs and is still active in professionalism activities of the Bar.
In October 2008, the University of Missouri Press published Smith’s biographical history of Thomas Ewing Jr., a notable free state advocate and general in the Union Army during the civil war.