5 December 2007
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Sixteenth Circuit Judicial Commission interviewed all applicants today and nominated a panel of three persons to Governor Matt Blunt to fill the position of circuit judge of the Sixteenth Circuit (Jackson County), created by the retirement of Judge J.D. Williamson Jr. Governor Blunt is expected to make the appointment from the panel of nominees within 60 days.
The nominees are David M. Byrn, Michael McAdam and Brent Powell.
Byrn is an assistant United States Attorney in Kansas City, Missouri, where he is Chief of the General Crimes Unit;
McAdam is in the private practice of law at the firm of Murphy & Tobin in Kansas City, Missouri, and is a municipal judge in Lee’s Summit, Missouri; and
Powell is a drug court commissioner of the Jackson County Circuit Court.
The Sixteenth Circuit Judicial Commission, chaired by Judge Victor C. Howard, chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, is composed of attorneys Tim E. Dollar and Cindy Reams Martin, and lay members Byron G. Thompson and Anita L. Russell.
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Update: The governor on January 17, 2008, appointed Brent Powell to fill this vacancy.
Contact: Terence G. Lord, clerk
(816) 889-3600