21st circuit commission releases demographics, interviewees, meeting information for Smith associate circuit judge vacancy in St. Louis County

16 January 2018

ST. LOUIS – Pursuant to the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan and Supreme Court Rule 10.28(d), the 21stCircuit Judicial Commission announces the following information relating to the applicants for the associate judge vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Dennis Smith: of the 29 applicants, there are 13 women, 16 men, three minorities, 26 non-minorities, 14 presently employed in the private sector and 15 presently employed in the public sector. The applicants' mean age is 49.

Also pursuant to Rule 10.28(d), the commission announces it will interview all 29 applicants:

Monique D. Abby	Thomas C. Albus	Ashley Bailey-Smith
Lorne J. Baker	Michael A. Becker	William A. Catlett
Mark J. Cero Sr.	Michael A. Finley	Peter W. Gullborg
Matthew H. Hearne	Heather S. Heffner	Terri J. Johnson
Mark W. Kiesewetter	Gary J. Krautmann	Eileen Krispin
Julia Lasater	Amanda McNelley	Brandi R. Miller
Diane M. Monahan	Ryan L. Munro	John F. Newsham
Susan M. Petersen	Krista S. Peyton	Edward J. Rolwes
Kenneth R. Schwartz	Ian C. Simmons	Dean A. Stark
D. Kimberly Whittle	Nicole S. Zellweger

The commission will conduct interviews of the applicants beginning at 8:30 a.m. February 1, 2018. The interviews will be open to the public in accordance with Rule 10.28 and will take place at the St. Louis County Court Building, Room South 15, 105 South Central, Clayton, Missouri. Immediately upon the conclusion of the public interviews, the commission will meet and select the three nominees for the vacancy to be submitted to the governor.

The members of the Twenty-First Circuit Judicial Commission are: James M. Dowd, chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, and chairman of the commission; Tiffany Mapp Franklin, William P. Grant, Thomas K. Reedy and Jeffrey D. Sigmund.

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