Appellate Judicial Commission releases demographic, interviewee, meeting information for Newton vacancy on Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District
8 September 2021
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Pursuant to Rule 10.28(d), the Appellate Judicial Commission announces the following demographic information relating to applicants for the vacancy on the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, created by the July 2021 retirement of Judge Thomas H. Newton.
There are 14 applicants, of whom five report they are women and three report they are minority applicants. Nine are from outside the Kansas City metropolitan area. Eleven applicants work in the public sector, one works in the private sector and two work in both. Of those in the private sector, one works in a solo or small-firm practice. Of those in the public sector, seven are trial court judges. The applicants’ mean age is 45.7 years.
Rule 10.28(d) permits the commission to select from among all a vacancy’s applicants those it wishes to interview. Historically, names of those being considered for a judicial vacancy were not released to the public; effective September 2010, the Supreme Court of Missouri changed Rule 10 to permit the judicial commissions to release the names of those individuals being interviewed. For this vacancy, the commission announces it will interview all 14 applicants:
Ryan S. Asbridge |
Cory L. Atkins |
Chad E. Blomberg |
Merilee A. Crockett |
Joshua C. Devine |
James C. Egan |
Kenneth R. Garrett III |
Shaun J. Mackelprang |
Tracey A. Mason-White |
Ryan A. Moehlman |
Jalilah Otto |
Vivek Puri |
Rebecca L. Spencer |
Janet L. Sutton |
The commission is expected to conduct interviews beginning at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, October 12 and 9 a.m. Wednesday, October 13, 2021, at the Supreme Court Building, 207 West High Street in Jefferson City. Interviews are open to the public, subject to available seating and compliance with current CDC guidelines; face masks and social distancing may be required. Interviews will not be available online.
The commission is expected to meet at approximately 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, October 13, after interviews conclude, at the Supreme Court Building to select the three nominees from this applicant pool for the governor’s consideration.
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Contact: Beth S. Riggert
Communications Counsel
Supreme Court of Missouri
(573) 751-3676
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