21st circuit commission releases demographic, interviewee, meeting information for Hemphill associate circuit judge vacancy in St. Louis County

6 January 2015

ST. LOUIS – Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10.28(d), the 21st Circuit Judicial Commission releases the following information relating to applicants for the vacancy created by the appointment of Judge Sandra Farragut-Hemphill to the circuit bench: 31 applicants, 15 women, 16 men, seven minority, 24 non-minorities, 21 presently employed in the private sector and 10 presently employed in the public sector. The applicants' mean age is 48.

Also pursuant to Rule 10.28(d), the commission announces it will interview all 31 applicants:

Amy Bender-Levy	David I. Hares	Brandi Miller
Leslie Tolliver Broadnax	Robert Heegie	Susan M. Peterson
Mark J. Cero Sr.	Paul F. Horgan	Linda Brown Reed
Sreenivasa R. Dandamudi	Bonnie J. Kelley	Richard Stewart
Henry M. DeWoskin	Alan M. Key, Jr.	Joan M. Swartz
Jason D. Dodson	David C. Knieriem	Gretchen Szydlowski
Daniel P. Finney II	Gary J. Krautmann	Dana Tucker
Jay D. Fisk	Julia Lasater	Dawn Kimberly Whittle
Mary W. Greaves	Annette Llewellyn	Allison Wolff
Joseph L. Green	Henry F. Luepke
Peter Gullborg	Amanda Bundren McNelley

The commission will meet beginning at 8:30 a.m. February 4 and 5, 2015, at the St. Louis County Council Chambers located at 41 South Central, 1st floor, Clayton, Missouri, to conduct public interviews to select three nominees from this applicant pool for the governor’s consideration. The public is invited to attend and observe the interviews.

The members of the 21st Circuit Judicial Commission are: Judge Angela T. Quigless, chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District; Richard Wuestling IV, Matthew J. Rossiter, Rev. Anthony Witherspoon and Christy Bertelson.

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