About
Judge Nicholas

Prior to taking the bench in January, 2015, Judge Nicholas was in private practice with Joseph Hensley in the Law office of Hensley & Nicholas, LLC, 2007-2014.  Prior to that, he was a member of the firm Blanchard, Robertson, Mitchell and Carter, P.C. He served as an assistant prosecuting attorney from 2007 to 2014.

Judge Nicholas serves as an officer on the Missouri Association of Probate and Associate Circuit Judges board, and he is on the Supreme Court Legislative Committee, and Civic Education Committee. During his private practice, Judge Nicholas handled general civil litigation, corporate law, banking law, estate planning, family law and landlord tenant law with a special interest in school law. Being licensed in Missouri as well as the United States Western District of Missouri, he handled cases in state courts throughout southwest Missouri, and argued cases before the Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, and the Missouri Supreme Court. 

Judge Nicholas graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1993 and graduated from the University of Oklahoma, College of Law, with distinction, in 1996. He is also a member of the Jasper County Bar Association, serving as President in 2001.

He and his wife, Greta, have two sons, Joseph and Benjamin.