12 April 2017

ST. LOUIS – Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10.28(d), the 21st Circuit Judicial Commission releases the following information relating to applicants for the circuit court judge vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Tom W. DePriest Jr.:  34 applicants, 15 women, 19 men, three minorities, 31 non-minorities, 17 presently employed in the private sector and 17 presently employed in the public sector.  The applicants' mean age is 54.

Also pursuant to Rule 10.28(d), the commission announces it will interview all 34 applicants:

Monique D. Abby	Terri J. Johnson	Jonathan W. Singer
Thomas C. Albus	B. Joyce Kelley	Dean A. Stark
G. Michael Archer	Kathryn M. Koch	Dana W. Tucker
John N. Borbonus III	Gary J. Krautmann	Robert E. Tucker
William A. Catlett	John R. Lasater	Colleen J. Vetter
Mark J. Cero Sr.	Henry F. Luepke III	Dean P. Waldemer
Judy P. Draper	Diane M. Monahan	D. Kimberly Whittle
Peter W. Gullborg	John F. Newsham	Patricia A. Wilcox
Matthew H. Hearne	Mary E. Ott	Gregory N. Wittner
Heather S. Heffner	Susan M. Petersen	Nicole S. Zellweger
Burce F. Hilton	Mary B. Schroeder
Paul F. Horgan	Kenneth R. Schwartz

The commission will meet beginning at 9 a.m. May 3, 2017, at the St. Louis County Court Building, Room South 15, located at 105 South Central, main floor, Clayton, Missouri, to conduct public interviews and then 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, Jeffrey D. Sigmund, Christy Bertelson and Tiffany Mapp Franklin.

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