24 January 2020
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, Western District, created by the November 2019 retirement of Judge Victor C. Howard.
There are 13 applicants, of whom five report they are women and three report they are minority applicants. Nine are from outside the Kansas City metropolitan area. Eleven applicants work in the public sector, while two work in both the public and private sectors. Of those in the private sector, one works in a solo or small-firm practice. Of those in the public sector, six are trial court judges. The applicants’ mean age is 48 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 Howard, the commission announces it will interview all 13 applicants:
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Ryan S. Asbridge |
Merilee A. Crockett |
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Timothy J. Flook |
Kenneth R. Garrett III |
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W. Ann Hansbrough |
Douglas B. Harris |
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Shaun J. Mackelprang |
Tracey Mason-White |
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Terrence M. Messonnier |
Ryan A. Moehlman |
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Cheryl C. Nield |
Jalilah Otto |
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W. Douglas Thomson |
The commission is expected to conduct interviews from 9 a.m. to approximately 3 p.m. Thursday, February 13, 2020, at the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, 1300 Oak Street in Kansas City. 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