16 October 2023

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 created by the September 2023 appointment of Judge Kelly C. Broniec to the Supreme Court of Missouri:

There are 22 applicants, of whom seven report they are female and three report they are minority applicants. Eight are employed outside the St. Louis metropolitan area. Eleven applicants work in the public sector, seven work in the private sector and four work in both. Of those in the private sector, three work in a solo or small-firm practice. Of those in the public sector, nine are judges. The applicants’ mean age is 49.8 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 this vacancy, the commission announces it will interview all 22 applicants, although those interviewed for the recent Sullivan vacancy on the Eastern District appeals court will receive abbreviated interviews:

 

Thomas C. Albus

Shane K. Blank

Stephen S. Davis

Timothy M. Etzkorn

Peter W. Gullborg

Kathleen S. Hamilton

Craig K. Higgins

Timothy W. Inman

Joseph B. Kloecker Jr.

Maria A. Lanahan

Virginia W. Lay

Ellen S. Levy

Christopher K. Limbaugh

Shaun M. Mackelprang

Jeffery T. McPherson

Rebeca M. Navarro-McKelvey

Susan M. Petersen

David E. Roland

Talley M. Smith

Michael F. Stelzer

David R. Truman

Grant W. Wobig

 

The commission is expected to conduct interviews beginning at 9 a.m. Monday, November 6, 2023, at the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, on the third floor of the Old Post Office building, 815 Olive Street, in downtown St. Louis. Interviews are open to the public, subject to available seating; they will not be available online.

The commission is expected to meet at approximately 2:15 p.m. Monday, November 6, after interviews conclude, at the Eastern District appeals court building to select the three nominees from this applicant pool for the governor’s consideration. 

Contact: Beth S. Riggert

Communications Counsel

Supreme Court of Missouri

(573) 751-3676