30 January 2012

Updated 22 February 2022 with meeting information

ST. LOUIS – Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10.28(d), the Commission releases the following information relating to applicants for the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge John Ross:  32 applicants, 11 women, 21 men, 8 minority, 24 non-minorities, 13 presently employed in the private sector and 19 presently employed in the public sector.  The applicants' mean age is 51.

Also pursuant to Rule 10.28(d), the Commission announces it will interview all 32 applicants:

Allen Kerr, Kristine

Bruntrager Schroeder, Mary

Churovich, Douglas D.

Curtis, Woodie James

Dandamudi, Sreenivasa Rao

Dodson, Jason D.

Dueker, Joseph S.

Farragut Hemphill, Sandra

Fort, Sonni L.

Gullborg, Peter W.

Herold, Susan M.

Hilton, Bruce F.

Hood, Dale W.

Johnson, Al W.

Jones, Sr., Phillip E.

Jones, Terry L.

Kelley, B. Joyce

Key, Jr., Alan M.

Knieriem, David C.

Krautmann, Gary J.

Lasater, John R.  (J.B.)

Luepke, Henry F. III

Ott, Mary E.

Permuter, Lawrence J.

Plunkert, Thomas J.

Ribaudo, Nellie (Ellen)

Smallwood, Clarence T.

Swartz, Joan M.

Waldemer, Dean P.

Walker Tucker, Dana

Warner, Jr., John D.

Whittle, D. Kimberly

The commission will send a written questionnaire to each applicant. The completed questionnaires must be returned to the commissioners no later than February 15, 2012.

The commission will meet beginning at 8:30 a.m. February 28 and 29, 2012, in the Probate Courtroom located on the fifth floor of the St. Louis County Courthouse, 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. Applicants may send an e-mail to 21stJudicialCommission@courts.mo.gov to learn the date and time of their interview, or they may contact Chief Judge Odenwald’s chambers at (314) 539-4341.

On February 29, 2012, immediately following the public interviews of the applicants, the commission will convene in the Probate Courtroom on the fifth floor of the St. Louis County Courthouse in Clayton to select the three-member panel to be forwarded to Governor Nixon for his consideration.  

The members of the Twenty-First Judicial Circuit Commission are: Judge Kurt S. Odenwald, chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District; Robert Patrick Dudley; Matthew J. Rossiter; Rev. Anthony Witherspoon; and Richard Wuestling IV.

Contact: Laura Roy

Clerk of the Court

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District

(314) 539-4300