(KNZA)--Three area residents are among eighty-five that have been sworn in as new attorneys in Kansas.

Matthew Rich, of Atchison, Benjamin Rioux, of Effingham and Kennedy White, of Holton, were successful applicants to the July 2019 Kansas bar examination.

They received their oaths during a ceremony Friday in the Kansas Supreme Court courtroom at the Kansas Judicial Center in Topeka.

White, the son of longtime Holton attorney Dennis White, is a 2012 graduate of Holton High School.

The Holton Recorder reports he is the third generation of the White family  to graduate from Washburn Law School and will be joining the firm founded by his grandfather, Marlin, in 1963 and joined by his father in 1984.