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

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26 June 2019

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 judge vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Thea A. Sherry: 30 applicants, 15 women, 15 men, three minority, 23 non-minorities, 15 presently employed in the private sector and 15 presently employed in the public sector. The applicants' mean age is 50.6.

Also pursuant to Rule 10.28(d), the commission announces it will interview all 30 applicants:

Monique D. Abby

Seth A. Albin

Thomas C. Albus

Michael A. Becker

Bonnie L. Clair

Heather R. Cunningham

Jason D. Dodson

Ellen W. Dunne

Daniel P. Finney III

Mondonna L. Ghasedi

Joseph L. Green

Peter W. Gullborg

Renee Hardin-Tammons

Matthew H. Hearne

Terri J. Johnson

John R. Lasater

Karen T. Louis

Brandi R. Miller

Diane M. Monahan

Ryan L. Munro

Stuart L. O'Brien

Susan M. Petersen

Krista S. Peyton

Thomas L. Sandifer

Kenneth R. Schwartz

Dean A. Stark

Colleen Joern Vetter

D. Kimberly Whittle

Gregory N. Wittner

Nicole S. Zellweger


The commission will meet beginning at 9:30 a.m. July 9 and July 10, 2019, at the St. Louis County Court Building, Courtroom 285, located at 105 South Central, 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: Colleen Dolan, chief judge-elect of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, and commission chair; 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

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