Paula Langworthy, a Derby family law attorney, is running as a Republican for Kansas District Court Judge, District 18, Division 4. The election is Nov. 3, 2026.
Langworthy is certified for the ballot, according to BallotReady election data.
Candidate information
- Residence: Derby, Kansas
- Party: Republican
- Education: Bachelor's degree in criminal justice, Northeastern State University (2000); juris doctor, Washburn University School of Law (December 2005). Langworthy said she graduated with honors from Washburn.
- Bar admissions: Kansas (since 2006) and South Dakota (since 2012), according to her Avvo attorney profile
- Family: Langworthy said she and her husband, Kurt, are a blended family with five sons and six grandchildren. She said the family attends Pleasantview Baptist Church in Derby.
- Background: Langworthy said she grew up in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the capital of the Cherokee Nation, and is a member of the Cherokee Nation.
Experience and public service
Langworthy has practiced law since 2006. She worked as an attorney at Triplett, Woolf & Garretson, LLC from 2005 to 2017, according to BallotReady profile data. She then practiced at Reddick Langworthy Family Law from 2017 to 2022 before opening Langworthy Law Office, where she has practiced since 2022.
Langworthy said she has focused primarily on family law matters since 2016, including divorce, child custody, parenting time, paternity, prenuptial agreements, guardianships, adoption and child-in-need-of-care cases.
Langworthy served as chief judge at the Oglala Sioux Tribal Court from 2011 to 2012 and has served as a special judge there since 2013, according to BallotReady. In 2026, she was appointed interim municipal court judge at Derby Municipal Court, according to the Derby Informer.
Langworthy said she serves on the Derby Planning Commission. She has served on the Wichita Bar Association Family Law Committee and Ethics Committee since 2016, and has been a member of the Kansas Bar Association Family Law Section since that same year, according to her Avvo profile.
Langworthy said she is a member of the Wichita Bar Association, Wichita Women Attorneys Association, Kansas Bar Association, Kansas Women Attorneys Association and the American Bar Association.
Awards and recognition
Langworthy was named a Missouri-Kansas Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, and a Missouri-Kansas Super Lawyer in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, according to her Avvo profile. She received the Kansas Bar Association's 2009 Pro Bono Certificate and was a 2009 Wichita Business Journal "40 Under 40" honoree. She is a member of the Leadership Wichita class of 2014.
The Wichita Ledger sent Langworthy a questionnaire about her priorities and positions. No responses to policy questions were available for this profile. This article will be updated if responses are received. Candidate biographical claims are attributed to the candidate throughout.
