22 December 2008

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 death of Judge Kelly J. Moorhouse.  Governor Blunt will make the appointment from the panel of nominees within 60 days.

The nominees are Nimrod T. Chapel, Jr., Joel Fahnestock May and J. Dale Youngs.

Nimrod T. Chapel, Jr. is a commissioner in the administrative hearing commission in Jefferson City, Missouri;

Joel Fahnestock May is an assistant United States attorney for the United States attorney’s office for the Western District of Missouri; and

J. Dale Youngs is in the private practice of law at the firm of Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP in Kansas City, Missouri.

The Judicial Commission, chaired by Chief Judge Thomas H. Newton 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.

Update: The governor selected Joel Fahnestock May to fill this vacancy.

Note: Links to nominees' applications typically are disabled after the governor makes his appointment.

Contact person: Thomas H. Newton, Chief Judge

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District

1300 Oak Street

Kansas City, MO  64106  

(816) 889-3629