17 September 2020
Corrected 18 and 21 September 2020 to add inadvertently omitted applicants and correct spelling of another
ST. LOUIS – Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10.28(d), the 21st Circuit Judicial Commission releases the following information relating to applicants for the associate circuit judge vacancies created by the death of Judge John R. Essner and the impending retirement of Judge Mary Bruntrager Schroeder:
There are 32 applicants. Of those, 15 are women, 17 are men, nine are minorities, 23 are non-minorities, 20 are presently employed in the private sector, and 12 are presently employed in the public sector. The applicants' mean age is 50.
Also, pursuant to Rule 10.28(d), the commission announces it will interview all 30 applicants:
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Monique D. Abby |
Eishsa Ahmed-Petersen |
Seth A. Albin |
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G. Michael Archer |
Kenneth M. Brison |
David L. Bryant |
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Nicole Chiravollatti |
Jason A. Denney |
Richard P. Dorsey |
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Michael L. Finley |
Peter W. Gullborg |
Bridget L. Halquist |
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Shevon L. Harris |
Beverly Hauber |
Heather S. Heffner |
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Terri J. Johnson |
Christopher J. Klaverkamp |
Peter J. Krane |
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Julia P. Lasater |
Karen T. Louis |
Margaret McCartney |
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Jeffrey P. Medler |
Krista S. Peyton |
Justin W. Rugh |
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Thomas L. Sandifer |
Ian C. Simmons |
Thomas D. Smith |
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Dean A. Stark |
Matthew R. Waltz |
Natalie P. Warner |
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D. Kimberly Whittle |
Chavon C. Williams |
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The commission will conduct the interviews for both vacancies via videoconference, using the Zoom online meeting platform, on October 1, 2020. The public and the media are invited to listen to the interviews via Zoom. If you are interested in doing so, please contact Chad Dalton at chad.dalton@courts.mo.gov no later than 5 p.m. Friday, September 25, 2020, for more information.
Immediately following the public interviews, the commission will meet in St. Louis County to select a panel of three applicants for the vacancy created by the death of Judge Essner to send to the governor, who will have 60 days to appoint one of the panelists as an associate circuit judge. Following the governor’s appointment to fill Judge Essner’s vacancy, the commission will reconvene to select a panel of three applicants for the vacancy created by the impending retirement of Judge Schroeder to submit to the governor.
The members of the Twenty-First Circuit Judicial Commission are: Robert G. Dowd Jr., chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, and chairperson of the commission; Tiffany Mapp Franklin, William P. Grant, Al Koller III, and Jeffrey D. Sigmund, secretary of the commission.
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Contact: Laura Roy, clerk of the court
Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District
(314) 539-4300