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

20 March 2019

Updated 2 April 2019 with new location of interviews and meeting.

ST. LOUIS – Pursuant to the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan and Supreme Court Rule 10.28(d), the 21st Circuit Judicial Commission announces the following information relating to the applicants for the circuit judge vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Maura B. McShane: of the 32 applicants, there are 13 women, 19 men, eight minorities, 24 non-minorities, 17 presently employed in the private sector and 15 presently employed in the public sector. The applicants’ mean age is 50.31.

Also pursuant to Rule 10.28(d), the commission announces it will interview all 32 applicants:

Monique D. Abby	Seth A. Albin	Thomas C. Albus
Kenneth M. Brison	William A. Catlett	Bonnie L. Clair
Heather R. Cunningham	Daniel E. Diemer	Jason D. Dodson
Daniel P. Finney III	Mondonna L. Ghasedi	Joseph L. Green
Peter W. Gullborg	Matthew H. Hearne	Robert M. Heggie
Terri Johnson	John R. Lasater	Virginia W. Lay
Karen T. Louis	Brandi Miller	Diane M. Monahan
Ryan L. Munro	Stuart L. O’Brien	Susan M. Petersen
Krista S. Peyton	Michael R. Roby	Thomas L. Sandifer
Ian C. Simmons	Dean A. Stark	Richard M. Stewart
Colleen Joern Vetter	D. Kimberly Whittle

Beginning at 10 a.m. April 16 and 17, 2019, the commission will conduct interviews of the applicants. The interviews, which will be open to the public in accordance with Rule 10.28, will take place at the St. Louis County Court Building, Courtroom 285, second floor, 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: Lisa P. Page, chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, and chairman of the Commission; Tiffany Mapp Franklin; William P. Grant; Al Koller III; and Jeffrey D. Sigmund.

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