23 October 2013
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Sixteenth Circuit Judicial Commission has considered 24 applicants and selected a panel of three nominees for the circuit judge vacancy in Division 7 of the Jackson County circuit court created by the retirement of Judge Ann Mesle. The nominees are S. Margene Burnett, Janette Rodecap and Bryan Round.
S. Margene Burnett – deputy probate commissioner, Division 19, 16th Judicial Circuit, Jackson County.
Janette K. Rodecap – attorney for the Jackson County prosecutor’s office.
Bryan E. Round – attorney with the law firm of Mitchell, Kristl & Lieber PC and a municipal court judge of Peculiar.
Each nominee received five votes.
The commission has submitted the panel to Governor Jay Nixon, who will have 60 days to appoint one of the nominees as circuit judge for Division 7.
The commission is chaired by Judge James Edward Welsh, chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, and is composed of attorneys Scott Bethune and Teresa Woody and lay members William Gautreax and Eric Williams.
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Update: The governor on November 27, 2013, appointed Margene Burnett to fill this vacancy.
Note: Links to nominees' applications typically are disabled after the governor makes his appointment.
Contact person: Terence G. Lord, Clerk of the Court
Missouri Court of Appeals - Western District
1300 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64106
Terence.Lord@courts.mo.gov
(816) 889-3600