21st circuit commission releases demographic, interviewee, meeting info for Loftin vacancy in St. Louis County County

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4 December 2013

ST. LOUIS – Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10.28(d), the 21st Circuit Judicial Commission releases the following demographic information relating to applicants for the associate circuit judge vacancy on the St. Louis County circuit court created by the retirement of Judge Brenda Stith Loftin.

There are 27 applicants. Of these, 14 are women, and five are minorities. 15 work in the private sector; and 12 work in the public sector. The applicants' mean age is 47.2.

Also pursuant to Rule 10.28(d), the commission announces it will interview all 27 applicants:

Ahmad, Sakina Yasmine

Bender-Levy, Amy E.

Curtis, Jr., Woodie James

Dodson, Jason David

Donnelly, Margaret Therese

Eisenhauer, Philip Robert

Finney III, Daniel Patrick

Greaves, Mary Wahner

Green, Joseph L.

Gunn, Kevin

Heggie, Robert M.

Hilton, Bruce F.

Kelley, Bonnie Joyce

Key, Jr., Alan M.

Knieriem, David Christopher

Krautmann, Gary Joseph

Lasater, Julia Pusateri

Llewellyn, Annette

Miller, Brandi

Petersen, Susan McDowell

Stewart, Richard Morris

Szydlowski, Gretchen R.

Tucker, Dana Walker

Watkins, Nancy Maurine

Weisman, Jeffrey T.

Whittle, D. Kimberly

Wolff, Allison

The commission is scheduled to conduct interviews from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Thursday, December 12 and from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday, December 13 at the St. Louis County Courthouse, Jury Assembly Room, Room 612, sixth floor, 7900 Carondelet, Clayton.

The public is invited to attend and observe interviews. The commission will meet in the same location to select three nominees from this applicant pool for the governor’s consideration beginning at approximately 2:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13.

The members of the 21st Circuit Judicial Commission are: Christine Bertelson; Matthew Rossiter; Rev. Anthony Witherspoon; Richard Wuestling IV; and Judge Robert M. Clayton III, chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District.

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Contact person: Laura Roy, Clerk of the Court
Missouri Court of Appeals - Eastern District
(314) 539-4300

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