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Governor Jay Nixon

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This page lists judges appointed by Jay Nixon (D) during his term as governor of Missouri. At the end of his term in January 2017, the total number of Nixon appointees was 104. For a more extensive profile, visit Nixon's page here.

Ballotpedia provides comprehensive coverage of the 100 largest cities in America by population. Some Missouri judges are outside of that coverage scope. As a result, this page does not provide an exhaustive list of all judges appointed by Gov. Nixon.

## Appointment process[edit]

In Missouri, the governor make a judicial appointment after candidates are recommended by a judicial nominating commission. After the governor appoints a judge, she or he must run for retention in the next general election more than one year after taking office.[1]

## Appointed judges

The tables below list the governor's appointees to the courts across the state.

### State Courts

#### Supreme Court

Name | Court | Active

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George Draper

Missouri Supreme Court

2011 -

Paul C. Wilson

Missouri Supreme Court

2013 -

#### Court of Appeals

Name | Court | Active

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Lisa Van Amburg

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District

2012 - 2018

Angela T. Quigless

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District

2012-04-12 -

James M. Dowd

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District

2015-06-03 -

Robert M. Clayton III

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District

2011-07-18 -

Philip M. Hess

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District

2013-11-21 -

Gary Gaertner Jr.

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District

2009-11-02 -

Colleen Dolan

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District

2016 -

Lisa P. Page

Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District

2015 -

Mary W. Sheffield

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District

2012-12-03 -

William W. Francis Jr.

Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District

2010-04-16 -

Anthony Rex Gabbert

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District

2013-04-03 -

Gary D. Witt

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District

2010 -

Mark D. Pfeiffer

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District

2009 -

Karen Mitchell

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District

2009 -

Cynthia Lynette Martin

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District

2009 -

Edward Ardini

Missouri Court of Appeals Western District

2016 -

### Local Courts

Name | Court | Active

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Rachel Bringer Shepherd

Missouri 10th Judicial Circuit Court

Grant C. Gorman

Missouri 11th Judicial Circuit Court Division 2

Erin Burlison

Missouri 11th Judicial Circuit Court St. Charles County

Richard Scheibe

Missouri 12th Judicial Circuit Court

Michael S. Wright

Missouri 12th Judicial Circuit Court

Michael Bradley

Missouri 13th Judicial Circuit Court

Christine Carpenter

Missouri 13th Judicial Circuit Court Division 1

Christine Carpenter

Missouri 13th Judicial Circuit Court Division 1

2017 -

Jeff Harris

Missouri 13th Judicial Circuit Court Division 2

Patrick W. Campbell

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 10

2013 -

Jennifer M. Phillips

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 12

Charles H. McKenzie

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 13

Kevin D. Harrell

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 18

2012 -

Mark Styles Jr.

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 19

Kenneth R. Garrett

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 2

2013 -

Kenneth R. Garrett

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 26 Associate Judge

2010 - 2013

Jeffrey C. Keal

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 28 Associate Judge

2013 -

Janette Kay Rodecap

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 29 Associate Judge

2014 -

Mary F. Weir

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 31 Associate Judge

Susan Long

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 34 Associate Judge

Jim Kanatzar

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 5

J. Dale Youngs

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 6

S. Margene Burnett

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 7

Bryan Round

Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit Court Division 8

Meryl L. Lange

Missouri 17th Judicial Circuit Court Division 3

Ada Brehe-Krueger

Missouri 20th Judicial Circuit Court

Douglas R. Beach

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court

2018

Mondi Ghasedi

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court

Brian May

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court

Jason Dodson

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court

Joseph S. Dueker

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court

Richard Stewart

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court

John F. Kintz

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court

Nancy M. Watkins

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court

Stanley Wallach

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court Division 12

Kristine Allen Kerr

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court Division 14

John D. Warner Jr.

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court Division 15

2020-08-25

Joseph Walsh

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court Division 17

Gloria Clark Reno

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court Division 19

2020-04-01

Sandra Farragut-Hemphill

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court Division 3

Robert Heggie

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court Division 42 Associate Judge

Thea A. Sherry

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court Division 5

Ellen H. Ribaudo

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court St. Louis County

Kevin Harrell

Missouri 22nd Judicial Circuit Court

Rex Burlison

Missouri 22nd Judicial Circuit Court Division 10

Christopher McGraugh

Missouri 22nd Judicial Circuit Court Division 15

Michael W. Noble

Missouri 22nd Judicial Circuit Court Division 22

Paula Perkins Bryant

Missouri 22nd Judicial Circuit Court Division 23

Nicole Colbert-Botchway

Missouri 22nd Judicial Circuit Court Division 24 Associate Judge

2015 - 2020-12-31

James E. Sullivan

Missouri 22nd Judicial Circuit Court Division 31

Michael F. Stelzer

Missouri 22nd Judicial Circuit Court Division 6

Travis Partney

Missouri 23rd Judicial Circuit Court Associate Judge

Patricia A. Riehl

Missouri 23rd Judicial Circuit Court Division 5

Joe Goff Jr.

Missouri 24th Judicial Circuit Court Associate judge

Wendy L. Wexler Horn

Missouri 24th Judicial Circuit Court Division 2

Kenneth G. Clayton

Missouri 25th Judicial Circuit Court

David Gregory Warren

Missouri 25th Judicial Circuit Court

Ronda L. Cortesini

Missouri 25th Judicial Circuit Court

Aaron Martin

Missouri 26th Judicial Circuit Court

Peggy Richardson

Missouri 26th Judicial Circuit Court

Gary Troxell

Missouri 28th Judicial Circuit Court

Thomas P. Redington

Missouri 2nd Judicial Circuit Court

James A. Hackett

Missouri 30th Judicial Circuit Court

James M. Owen

Missouri 30th Judicial Circuit Court Division 2

Margaret Holden Palmietto

Missouri 31st Judicial Circuit Court

Becky Borthwick

Missouri 31st Judicial Circuit Court

Douglas Andrew Hosmer

Missouri 31st Judicial Circuit Court Division 23 Associate Judge

Ron Carrier

Missouri 31st Judicial Circuit Court Division 26 Associate Judge

Jason Brown

Missouri 31st Judicial Circuit Court Division 3

D. Blake Pearson

Missouri 33rd Judicial Circuit Court

Joshua D. Underwood

Missouri 34th Judicial Circuit Court

Frederick Tucker

Missouri 41st Judicial Circuit Court

Sanborn N. Ball

Missouri 42nd Judicial Circuit Court

Brandi L. Baird

Missouri 42nd Judicial Circuit Court Dent County

Benjamin Thompson

Missouri 42nd Judicial Circuit Court Reynold County Division 3

J. Bartley Spear

Missouri 43rd Judicial Circuit Court

Daniel L. Chadwick

Missouri 43rd Judicial Circuit Court

R. Brent Elliott

Missouri 43rd Judicial Circuit Court Division 2

Cynthia O. MacPherson

Missouri 44th Judicial Circuit Court

2014 - 2018

Elizabeth A. Bock

Missouri 44th Judicial Circuit Court Douglas County

Patrick S. Flynn

Missouri 45th Judicial Circuit Court Lincoln County

Tiffany Yarnell

Missouri 46th Judicial Circuit Court

James W. Van Amburg

Missouri 6th Judicial Circuit Court

2020-12-31

Thomas C. Fincham

Missouri 6th Judicial Circuit Court Division 1

Abe Shafer V

Missouri 6th Judicial Circuit Court Division 3 Associate Judge

2014 -

W. Ann Hansbrough

Missouri 6th Judicial Circuit Court Division 4 Associate Judge

2014 - 2021

Dennis C. Eckold

Missouri 6th Judicial Circuit Court Division 5 Associate Judge

2010 -

Janet Lee Sutton

Missouri 7th Judicial Circuit Court Division 2

2013 -

Louis Angles

Missouri 7th Judicial Circuit Court Division 7 Associate Judge

2013 -

Timothy Flook

Missouri 7th Judicial Circuit Court Division 9 Associate Judge

James Carey Thompson

Missouri 8th Judicial Circuit Court

## Judicial selection process[edit]

See also: Judicial selection in Missouri
Judicial selection in Missouri

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Missouri Supreme Court
Method: |  Assisted appointment
Term: |  12 years
Missouri Court of Appeals
Method: |  Assisted appointment
Term: |  12 years
Missouri Circuit Courts
Method: |  Assisted appointment or partisan elections
Term: |  6 years

## Contents

* 1 Appointment process
* 2 Judicial selection process
* 3 Recent news
* 4 State profile
* 4.1 Presidential voting pattern
* 5 See also
* 6 External links
* 7 Footnotes

Judicial selection refers to the process used to select judges for courts. At the state level, methods of judicial selection vary substantially in the United States, and in some cases between different court types within a state. There are six primary types of judicial selection: partisan and nonpartisan elections, the Michigan method, assisted appointment, gubernatorial appointment, and legislative elections. To read more about how these selection methods are used across the country, click here.

This article covers how state court judges are selected in Missouri, including:

* Missouri Supreme Court,
* Missouri Court of Appeals,
* Missouri Circuit Courts, and
* Limited jurisdiction courts

Selection of state judges in Missouri occurs largely through merit selection, specifically the assisted appointment method in which the governor selects a nominee from a list provided by a nominating commission. Appointed judges serve a short initial term and later run in yes-no retention elections if they wish to serve full terms.[2]

Click here to notify us of changes to judicial selection methods in this state.

Appellate state court selection in the United States, by general selection method[3]

State courts and their selection methods across the U.S., including the District of Columbia[3]

Method  | Supreme Court (of 53)[4] | Courts of Appeal (of 46)  | Trial Courts (of 147)
Partisan elections (PE) | 8 | 6 | 39
Nonpartisan elections (NPE) | 13 | 16 | 34
Legislative elections (LE) | 2 | 2 | 5
Gubernatorial appointment of judges (GA) | 5 | 3 | 6
Assisted appointment (AA) | 22 | 18 | 46
Combination or other | 3[5] | 1[6] | 17[7]

## Recent news[edit]

The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for the terms Judicial appointments 'Jay Nixon'. These results are automatically generated from Google. Ballotpedia does not curate or endorse these articles.

Judges appointed by Jay Nixon - Google News

## State profile[edit]

Demographic data for Missouri

| Missouri| U.S.
Total population:| 6,076,204| 316,515,021
Land area (sq mi):| 68,742| 3,531,905
Race and ethnicity**
White:| 82.6%| 73.6%
Black/African American:| 11.5%| 12.6%
Asian:| 1.8%| 5.1%
Native American:| 0.4%| 0.8%
Pacific Islander:| 0.1%| 0.2%
Two or more:| 2.4%| 3%
Hispanic/Latino:| 3.9%| 17.1%
Education
High school graduation rate:| 88.4%| 86.7%
College graduation rate:| 27.1%| 29.8%
Income
Median household income:| $48,173| $53,889
Persons below poverty level:| 18.2%| 11.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2010-2015)
Click here for more information on the 2020 census and here for more on its impact on the redistricting process in Missouri.

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**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

### Presidential voting pattern[edit]

See also: Presidential voting trends in Missouri

Missouri voted Republican in all six presidential elections between 2000 and 2020.

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## See also[edit]

Missouri | Judicial Selection | More Courts

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Courts in Missouri Missouri Court of Appeals Missouri Supreme Court |  Elections: 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 Gubernatorial appointments Judicial selection in Missouri |  Federal courts State courts Local courts

## External links[edit]

* Office of the Governor

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Missouri," archived October 2, 2014
2. ↑ American Judicature Society, "Judicial Selection in the States: Missouri," accessed September 7, 2021
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection," archived February 2, 2015
4. ↑ Both Oklahoma and Texas have two state supreme courts: one for civil matters and one for criminal matters.
5. ↑ Michigan and Ohio use nonpartisan general elections with candidates selected through partisan primaries or conventions. In the District of Columbia, judges are selected in the same manner as federal judges.
6. ↑ Judges of the North Dakota Court of Appeals are appointed on an as-needed basis by the supreme court justices.
7. ↑ Most courts that use combination/alternative methods (for example, mayoral appointment) are local level courts. These courts are often governed by selection guidelines that are unique to their specific region.

Missouri courts

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Federal courts:

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Eastern District of Missouri, Western District of Missouri • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Eastern District of Missouri, Western District of Missouri

State courts:

Missouri Supreme Court • Missouri Court of Appeals • Missouri Circuit Courts • Missouri Municipal Courts

State resources:

Courts in Missouri • Missouri judicial elections • Judicial selection in Missouri