28 February 2023

ST. LOUIS – The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District is scheduled to hear oral arguments for a special docket Thursday, March 9, 2023, at Saint Louis University School of Law, 100 North Tucker Boulevard in St. Louis. The court sessions, scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., are open to the public. This special law school docket continues a tradition of the Eastern District of convening court in areas outside of the Old Post Office in downtown St. Louis, where the court regularly conducts its sessions. 

Participating in the docket are three judges from the court of appeals – Judges Renée Hardin-Tammons, Angela T. Quigless and Sherri Sullivan – and Judge Laura Denvir Stith, who retired from the Supreme Court of Missouri in 2021 and will sit as a special judge. The judges will sit in panels of three to hear oral arguments in two appeals from the city of St. Louis and St. Louis County circuit courts. After the court session, the judges will participate in a question-and-answer session with audience members and students regarding courts, the role of judges and the judicial system.

Hardin-Tammons, the court’s newest judge, was appointed in September 2022 after serving as a circuit judge, an associate circuit judge, a municipal judge and practicing law in St. Louis. Quigless was appointed to the court of appeals in 2012. She previously served the city of St. Louis as a circuit judge, an associate circuit judge, an assistant city counselor and an assistant circuit attorney. Sullivan was appointed to the court of appeals in 1999 after serving as a circuit judge, an associate circuit judge and an assistant circuit attorney. Stith was appointed to the Supreme Court in  2001, after serving six years at the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, and practicing law from 1979 to 1994.

The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, is the state’s largest appellate court, with offices in the historic Old Post Office in downtown St. Louis.  There are fourteen judges on the court, which handles approximately 50 percent of the intermediate appellate caseload in Missouri. The Eastern District has jurisdiction over appeals from trial courts in 25 counties and the city of St. Louis. The court regularly hears cases in St. Louis, Hannibal, Cape Girardeau and other locations in the Eastern District.

Contact: Laura Roy, clerk of court

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District 

(314) 539-4300