1 October 2024

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, plans to convene court October 22, 2024, at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg. The oral arguments will be held in the Elliott Student Union Ballroom inside the Student Union on campus. 

Beginning at 9 a.m., a three-judge panel consisting of Judge Lisa White Hardwick, Judge Cynthia Martin and Judge Janet Sutton will hear oral arguments in four cases. After the oral arguments, the judges will take time to discuss the court system and take general questions from the audience.

Hardwick will preside over the proceedings in Warrensburg. She joined the Western District in 2001. Immediately prior to her appointment, she served as a circuit judge in the 16th Judicial Circuit (Jackson County). Previously, she practiced law with the Shook, Hardy & Bacon law firm in Kansas City. Martin joined the Western District in 2009. She practiced law in Kansas City and Lee’s Summit before joining the court. Sutton was appointed to the Western District in 2021. Prior to that, she served as a municipal judge for the city of Excelsior Springs and as an associate circuit judge and a circuit judge in the 7th Judicial Circuit (Clay County).

The court regularly convenes court in Kansas City. For more than 25 years, however, the court has held dockets in several of the 45 counties in the court’s jurisdiction, which includes all of northwest Missouri and most of central Missouri. The court hears oral arguments outside of Kansas City to give individuals an opportunity to observe a part of the judicial system they normally do not see and to familiarize those attending with the court’s role in the judicial system.

Attachment: Summaries of cases scheduled to be argued October 22, 2024, in Warrensburg

Contact: Kimberly K. Boeding, clerk of court

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District

(816) 889-3600