Caleb Stegall during the Senate committee hearing. (Photo by Stephen Koranda)Governor Sam Brownback's nominee for an open seat on the Kansas Court of Appeals is headed for a vote in the full Senate. A committee yesterday (TUE) endorsed the nominee after a public hearing. This is the first vacancy filled on the court under a new system where the governor chooses nominees, who then must be confirmed by the Kansas Senate. As KPR's Stephen Koranda reports, Brownback chose his office's top attorney, Caleb Stegall, for the seat on the state's second-highest court.