Republican - Ellis County Attorney
Sources for Aaron Cunningham
18 public source entries are attached to this profile. Primary records, reporting, and public online activity are grouped separately so readers can inspect the record.
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Primary Records
8 sources- Aaron J. Cunningham is listed as Ellis County Attorney (2025-present)
- The County Attorney's Office handles misdemeanor and felony criminal prosecution, alcohol/drug care and treatment cases, child-in-need-of-care cases, traffic violations, juvenile offender cases, and mental-illness matte...
- Office priorities include deaths, child victims including CINC cases, sex crimes, violent person crimes, property crimes, drug distribution crimes, effective prosecution, and office efficiency for taxpayers
- Staff directory lists Aaron Cunningham with the title Ellis County Attorney
- Ellis County staff directory: official contact/title page. (source)
- Official Ellis County 2024 general-election results PDF is the primary source path for the County Attorney result
- PDF is image-based; local text extraction was blank, while web search/OCR showed Aaron J. Cunningham with 11,379 votes and write-ins with 146
- County officials section lists County Attorney Aaron Cunningham
- Attorney staffing table lists 10 positions including County Attorney, three Assistant County Attorneys, three Legal Assistants, Administrative Coordinator, Traffic Clerk, and Victim/Witness Coordinator
- Attorney budget section lists Responsible Party: Aaron Cunningham, County Attorney (elected by Ellis County voters)
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Ellis County, Kansas - 2026-05-19
Ellis County Commission Agenda Packet - January 21, 2025ellisco.net
- County Attorney Aaron Cunningham gave commissioners an update as newly elected county attorney
- Cunningham asked for approval of a Victim Witness Coordinator job description
- Commission approved the Victim Witness Coordinator job description 3-0
- December 17, 2024 minutes state Robert Anderson's county-attorney term was up January 13, 2025
- Minutes refer to Aaron Cunningham as the new incoming County Attorney
- County Attorney Aaron Cunningham presented the County Attorney budget
- Cunningham said the office had enough staff to keep everyone busy
- Cunningham said attorneys make a big impact on efficiencies
- Rural legal capacity is a recurring professional theme. Kansas Courts lists Cunningham, attorney, Hays, on the Kansas Rural Justice Initiative Committee roster, and the final report search result identifies him as a new...
- Public legal/civic presence also appears in the Kansas Rural Justice Initiative. Kansas Courts lists Aaron Cunningham, attorney, Hays, on the committee roster, and the final report search result identifies him as a newe...
- Kansas Courts Rural Justice Initiative page and final report: committee roster and rural legal-access work. (page, [PDF](https://www.kscourts.gov
Reporting and Public Context
8 sources- Readable 2024 Ellis County result copy lists Aaron J. Cunningham (R) with 11,379 votes and write-ins with 146 in the County Attorney race
- IKE Lab 2024 general-election results: 11,379 votes for Cunningham, 146 write-ins. (source)
- Electoral: 11,379 votes for Aaron J. Cunningham (R) in the 2024 Ellis County Attorney race, with 146 write-ins. (IKE Lab)
- Hays Post listed Aaron J Cunningham as the Republican candidate for Ellis County Attorney after the 2024 filing deadline
- The 2024 campaign footprint is sparse. Hays Post listed "Aaron J Cunningham" as the Republican candidate for Ellis County Attorney, and IKE Lab's 2024 results show him receiving 11,379 votes against 146 write-ins. ([Hay...
- Hays Post's June 4, 2024 candidate filing coverage listed "Aaron J Cunningham" as the Republican candidate for Ellis County Attorney. (Hays Post) IKE Lab's 2024 general-election results show Aa
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Hays Post - 2026-05-19
New Ellis County Attorney to resume charging pot cases; lack of attorneys still issuehayspost.com
- Cunningham returned to Hays to serve his hometown
- Cunningham ran unopposed and took office in January 2025
- Cunningham said the office likely still had hundreds of backlogged cases
- Cunningham opposed probation in a criminal-threat/aggravated-assault case
- Cunningham argued against allowing the defendant to justify his actions based on allegations against another person
- Cunningham said probation would signal that people could take matters into their own hands rather than use established investigative and court systems
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The Guidon Online - 2026-05-19
Assistant Ellis County Attorney Aaron Cunningham speaks to students about career in lawhayshighguidon.com
- Cunningham was described as a 2012 Hays High graduate
- Cunningham earned a bachelor's degree from Kansas State University and attended Washburn law school
- Cunningham linked law to writing, advocacy, justice, servant-hearted practice, and helping victims
- HaysMed listed Ellis County Attorney Aaron Cunningham as a June 27, 2025 human-trafficking awareness panel participant
- His visible public safety activity also includes community and media settings. HaysMed listed him as part of a June 2025 human-trafficking awareness panel with medical, law-enforcement, and KBI participants. ([HaysMed](...
- HaysMed human-trafficking panel page: public safety/community education appearance. (source)
- Existing local harvest reported a candidate/profile-controlled page with Hays/Kansas education metadata, Christian/Calvinist self-description, and X handle Sinfonian24601
- Current targeted search did not return a crawlable matching page, so exact copy should be recaptured before quotation
- about.me: Existing local harvest records https://about.me/aaron.cunningham as a candidate/profile-controlled page with Hays/Kansas education metadata, Christian/Calvinist self-description, and an X/Twitter handle (Sinfo...
- Avvo attorney profile
- Avvo: Aaron Cunningham
Public Online Activity
2 sources- Existing local harvest reported a matching LinkedIn preview with Kansas State University, Washburn University School of Law, and Hays work history
- No public activity feed was visible
- LinkedIn surfaced a matching public profile preview with Kansas State University, Washburn University School of Law, a Hays work trail, 246 followers, and 245 connections, but direct fetch was blocked and no public acti...
- LinkedIn -- lists K-State education
