ST. LOUIS – The Twenty-First Circuit Judicial Commission (St. Louis County) is accepting applications for a circuit judge vacancy newly created by the Missouri General Assembly.
The commission encourages qualified individuals to apply for judicial office. Qualifications for circuit judges may be found in article V, section 21 of the Missouri Constitution.
Application forms may be picked up in the clerk’s office at the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, in the Old Post Office, 815 Olive Street, Room 304, St. Louis, Missouri. Applications are also available here:
Application: in Word in PDF
Instructions: in Word in PDF
Applicants who previously applied for the circuit judge vacancy created by Judge Richard Bresnahan’s retirement need only send a letter requesting their previous application be transferred to the current opening.
Applications must be received by each commissioner no later than 5 p.m. November 10, 2015. In accordance with the Rules 10.28 and 10.29, candidate interviews will be conducted publicly on December 3, 2015, at the St. Louis County Council Chambers Conference Room, 41 South Central, 1st Floor, Clayton, Missouri. The commission will meet to select the panel of nominees to be submitted to the governor immediately following the conclusion of the public interviews.
The
members of the Twenty-First Circuit Judicial Commission are: Christy Bertelson,
Rev. Anthony Witherspoon, Richard Wuestling IV, Matthew Rossiter and Lisa Van
Amburg, chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District.
Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District
(314) 539-4300