21st circuit commission releases demographic, interviewee, meeting information for Cohen circuit judge vacancy in St. Louis County

12 July 2016

ST. LOUIS – Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10.28(d), the Twenty-First Circuit Judicial Commission releases the following information relating to applicants for the circuit judge vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Robert S. Cohen: 36 applicants, 17 women, 19 men, four minority, 32 non-minorities, 17 presently employed in the private sector and 19 presently employed in the public sector. The applicants' mean age is 53.

Also pursuant to Rule 10.28(d), the commission announces it will interview all 36 applicants:

Michael A. Becker	Robert M. Heggie	Mary E. Ott
John N. Borbonus, III	Bruce F. Hilton	Susan M. Petersen
Sreenivasa Rao Dandamudi	Dale W. Hood	Thomas J. Plunkert
Dennis M. Devereux	Paul F. Horgan	Mary B. Schroeder
Margaret T. Donnelly	B. Joyce Kelley	Kenneth R. Schwartz
Judy P. Draper	David C. Knieriem	Dean A. Stark
Ellen W. Dunne	Gary J. Krautmann	Dana W. Tucker
Jay D. Fisk	Jacqueline Kutnik-Bauder	Robert E. Tucker
Mondonna L. Ghasedi	Julia P. Lasater	Colleen J. Vetter
Mary W. Greaves	Henry F. Luepke, III	Stanley J. Wallach
Peter W. Gullborg	Brian H. May	Kimberly D. Whittle
Heather S. Heffner	Diane M. Monahan	Nicole S. Zellweger

The commission will meet beginning at 8:30 a.m. August 10 and August 11, 2016, at the St. Louis County Court Building, Room S15, located at 105 South Central, main floor, Clayton, Missouri, to conduct public interviews to select three nominees from this applicant pool for the governor’s consideration. The public is invited to attend and observe the interviews.

The members of the Twenty-First Circuit Judicial Commission are: Philip M. Hess, chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District; Matthew J. Rossiter, Rev. Anthony Witherspoon, Jeffrey D. Sigmund and Christy Bertelson.

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Contact: Laura Thielmeier Roy
Clerk of Court
Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District
(314) 539-4300