17 October 2012

ST. LOUIS – Pursuant to Rule 10.28(d), the 22nd Circuit Judicial Commission releases the following information relating to applicants for the circuit judge vacancy created by the appointment of Judge Lisa S. Van Amburg to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District. 

There are 13 applicants, 10 women, four minorities, five presently employed in the private sector and eight presently employed in the public sector. The applicants' mean age is 48.5.

Also pursuant to rule 10.28(d), the commission announces it will interview all 13 applicants:

Deborah Bird

Theresa Counts Burke

Paula Perkins Bryant

Thomas C. Clark II

Anne-Marie Clarke

Nicole Colbert-Botchway

Matthew Devoti

Bridget L. Halquist

Heather J. Hays

Elizabeth B. Hogan

Calea F. Stovall-Reid

James E. Sullivan

Mary Celeste Vossmeyer

The commission will conduct interviews starting at 10 a.m. November 7, 2012, at the Missouri Court of Appeals, 815 Olive Street, St. Louis. The public is invited to attend and observe the interviews. The commission will meet after interviews are completed in the same location to select the three nominees from this applicant pool for the governor’s consideration.

The members of the 22nd Circuit Judicial Commission are: Judge Gary M. Gaertner Jr., chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District; Michael Calvin; Stephen F. Doss; June Bosley-Dabney-Gray; and Steven L. Groves.

Contact: Laura Roy, Clerk of Court

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District

Phone (314) 539-4300