Patty Walls, court reporter for the Staff Judge Advocate’s office at Fort Riley has been working in her profession for 50 years as of this year. She began working at Fort Riley in 1966 and has been at the post ever since. She was a young mother in 1966, living with her husband in Wakefield and filling in at the Geary County’s attorney’s office, when a family friend who worked at the Fort Riley Civilian Personnel Office and lived in Wakefield called to ask her if she wanted to work at the post’s Staff Judge Advocate’s Office. “She said, ‘Your parents told me you just graduated from court reporter’s school. They are wanting to hire a court reporter at Fort Riley. Would you be interested, and I said yes. She asked me when I could start and I said...MORE
