PLATTSMOUTH – Gov. Pete Ricketts has appointed S. Colin Palm of Plattsmouth as a judge in the Second Judicial District including Cass, Otoe and Sarpy counties.

Palm, age 50, has served in the Cass County Attorney’s Office since August 2000.

He has been county attorney since 2018 after having worked as chief deputy county attorney from 2003 to 2018.

He has prosecuted felony, misdemeanor, and traffic cases in district and county court. Palm has also handled all of the inheritance tax cases in Cass County.

Palm served as deputy county attorney in Adams County from 1998 to 2000. 

Palm fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Robert C. Wester.

The primary place of office for the judgeship is Papillion.