Caleb Stegall (born September 20, 1971) is an American attorney and writer who resides in Perry, Kansas. He has served as the district attorney for Jefferson County, Kansas, and Chief Counsel to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback before he was appointed to the Kansas Court of Appeals. On August 29, 2014, Stegall was appointed by Kansas Governor Sam Brownback to the Kansas Supreme Court, replacing Nancy Moritz, who had been appointed by President Barack Obama to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a proponent of traditionalist conservatism. Early life Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Stegall is a lifelong resident of Douglas and Jefferson Counties, in northeastern Kansas. In Douglas County, Stegall attended and graduated from Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Kansas. Law practice When Brownback was appointed, the Kansas Democratic Party issued a release criticizing Brownback for the appointment because of his connection to the disbarred attorney Phill Kline. He represented the State of Kansas in litigation with environmentalists over the permitting of coal-fired power plants. 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. In 2008, he successfully defended the former executive director of the Kansas Republican Party in a dispute over Kansas campaign finance rules. In 2007, he was the lead counsel in the Kansas Supreme Court trial of former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline based on perjury, an illegal file transfer, and misleading legal guidance. In 2008, Stegall represented a group of residents against the public financing of casino operations in Kansas City, Kansas. In 2008, he represented a church that challenged local regulations on the church's operations as a homeless shelter. In 2009, he represented a teacher who claimed not to have been rehired because of his conservative political beliefs. As district attorney, he filed charges in 2009 against a county commissioner charged with theft by deception. In 2010, he was involved with a federal and state investigation of a distributor of "ethnobotanicals" who was accused of selling a synthetic cannabis. He has worked as general counsel for Americans for Prosperity and on the executive committee of Audubon of Kansas.<ref>"Jefferson County attorney candidate Caleb Stegall chats about primary election", Lawrence Journal-World, July 29, 2008.</ref> Politics Stegall has been identified as an advocate for traditionalist conservatism and a "prairie populist." In 2004, he was profiled