Education and career
Born in Kansas City,Missouri,Kays received a Bachelor of Science degree from Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University) in 1985 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1987. He was in private practice in Missouri from 1988 to 1989. He was an assistant public defender in the Office of the Special Public Defender for Springfield,Missouri,in 1989. He worked in the Prosecuting Attorney's Office for Laclede County,Missouri,from 1988 to 1995,first as an assistant prosecuting attorney from 1988 to 1989,then as a chief assistant prosecuting attorney from 1989 to 1991,and finally as a prosecuting attorney from 1991 to 1995. He was an adjunct faculty member at Drury University from 1991 to 2004. He was an associate circuit judge for Laclede County from 1995 to 2004,and was a presiding judge for the Twenty-sixth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri from 2005 to 2008.
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