Turner attorney and community leader represents the 6th District as Commissioner for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas (UG). Markley is the chairperson of the UG Administration and Human Services Standing Committee. She serves as the UG’s appointment to the Mid-America Regional Council Board of Directors, and as CDBG committee. She previously chaired the ad hoc committ
ees for the municipal court judge appointment, and twice served on the strategic planning consultant hiring committee. Markley works as in-house counsel to BRR Architecture, Inc. She graduated cm laude from Washburn University School of Law in 2006, and summa cm laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Pittsburg State University in 2003. Markley is a Turner High School graduate, former chair of the Turner Recreation Commission, and former Turner Days Committee member. She was a founding member of Turner Community Connection. She and her husband are current officers of the SAFE Neighborhood Group. Markley sits on the governance committee and the strategic planning committee of Project EAGLE, which operates from the Children’s Campus on Minnesota Avenue. She is a member of Our Lady of Unity parish, where she lectors and participates in the choir. Markley has lived her entire life in the Turner area. She is married to Joshua Markley, and they have a son, Lewis.
