19 December 2019

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Pursuant to Rule 10.28(d), the Appellate Judicial Commission announces the following demographic information relating to applicants for the vacancy on the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, created by the September 2019 retirement of Judge Lawrence E. Mooney.

There are 19 applicants, of whom five report they are women and two report they are minority applicants. Eight are from outside the St. Louis metropolitan area. Nine applicants work in the public sector, nine work in the private sector and one works in both. Of those in the private sector, four work in a solo or small-firm practice. Of those in the public sector, seven are trial court judges. The applicants’ mean age is 50 years.

Rule 10.28(d) permits the commission to select from among all a vacancy’s applicants those it wishes to interview. Historically, names of those being considered for a judicial vacancy were not released to the public; effective September 2010, the Supreme Court of Missouri changed rule 10 to permit the judicial commissions to release the names of those individuals being interviewed. For the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Mooney, the commission announces it will interview all 19 applicants:

The commission is expected to conduct interviews from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, January 17, 2020, at the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, One Post Office Square, 815 Olive Street in St. Louis. The public is invited to attend and observe interviews. The commission is expected to meet at the completion of the interviews to select the three nominees from this applicant pool for the governor’s consideration.

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Contact: Beth S. Riggert
Communications Counsel
Supreme Court of Missouri
(573) 751-3676