23 July 2008

ST. LOUIS – The Twenty-Second Circuit Judicial Commission announced the panel of three nominees to be submitted to Governor Blunt to fill the vacancy on the circuit court of the city of St. Louis created by the retirement of Judge Michael B. Calvin.

Those nominated by the commission are: the Honorable Paula Perkins Bryant, Elaine Pudlowski and Commissioner Robin Ransom Vannoy.

Bryant received her bachelor of science degree from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1981 and her juris doctoris from St. Louis University School of Law in 1983. In 2004, Ms. Bryant was appointed to the bench as an associate circuit judge presiding over both civil and criminal matters. Bryant is also a member of the faculty at Webster University as an adjunct professor, where she teaches law related courses in the Behavior Science Department. Judge Bryant was an assistant circuit attorney during the years 1993 to 2004. During her tenure in the circuit attorney’s office, she was assigned to the specialized homicide unit and later became a team leader, managing a case load of A and B felonies, and three felony lawyers. From 1991 to 1993, Bryant was in private practice handling civil and criminal cases. She also served as a public defender from 1987 to 1991 and also worked for the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court as a staff attorney. She is active with several bar associations, a member of the Catholic church, and is affiliated with other community and educational organizations. She is married and has two children.

Pudlowski is an attorney with the law firm of Frankel, Rubin, Bond, Dubin, Siegel & Klein PC, practicing primarily in the areas of domestic relations, civil litigation and juvenile law. Pudlowski received both her bachelor of arts and juris doctorate degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. She resides in the Compton Heights neighborhood of the city of St. Louis with her husband, Jim Pudlowski, and their four sons.

 

Vannoy was born and raised in Fairground Park Neighborhood in north St. Louis City. She graduated from Rosati-Kain High School in 1985. She received a bachelor of arts degree in sociology and political science in 1988 from Douglas College-Rutgers University in New Jersey and graduated in May 1991 from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law. Vannoy is married to Richard Vannoy III with an 8-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter. She has been a resident of the Tower Grove Heights community in south St. Louis city since October 1998.

The commission believes these candidates chosen from a field of extremely qualified individuals possess those qualities of compassion, intellect and high moral purpose essential to the fair and efficient administration of justice. Each of these people have that trial experience and sense of fairness that the commission knows is required to administer justice to the people of the city of St. Louis and the state of Missouri and proudly presents these names to Governor Blunt for his ultimate decision. The commission is confident that all of these individuals are capable of serving well and honorably if selected by the governor.

The members of the Twenty-Second Circuit Judicial Commission are: Chief Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District Nannette A. Baker, June Bosley Dabney-Gray, Stephen Doss, Thomas Schwartz and Mary Anne Sedey.

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

Contact: Laura Roy, clerk

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District

(314) 539-4300