Ballotpedia provides comprehensive coverage of the 100 largest cities in America by population as well as mayoral, city council, and district attorney election coverage in state capitals outside of the 100 largest cities. This county is outside of that coverage scope and does not receive scheduled updates.

Saint Louis County is within the 21st Judicial Circuit. The people of Saint Louis County are served by a Circuit Court and eighty-three Municipal Courts.

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has jurisdiction in Saint Louis County. Appeals from the Eastern District go to the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit.

Judges[edit]

Saint Louis County, Missouri

Circuit Court[edit]

Missouri 21st Judicial Circuit Court

Elections[edit]

See also: Missouri judicial elections

Missouri is one of 43 states that hold elections for judicial positions. To learn more about judicial selection in Missouri, click here.

• Missouri local trial court judicial elections, 2024
• Missouri local trial court judicial elections, 2023
• Missouri local trial court judicial elections, 2022
• Missouri local trial court judicial elections, 2021
• Missouri local trial court judicial elections, 2020
• Missouri local trial court judicial elections, 2019
• Missouri local trial court judicial elections, 2018
• Missouri local trial court judicial elections, 2017
• Missouri local trial court judicial elections, 2016
• Missouri judicial elections, 2014
• Missouri judicial elections, 2012
• Missouri judicial elections, 2010

Election rules[edit]

Partisan election[edit]

Trial judges who were elected in partisan elections may seek re-election at the end of their terms. They must run as a Republican, Democrat, or an independent. Partisan elections decide the majority of Missouri's judges. Judges first run in a party primary in August, with the winner of each primary moving on to the general election.^[1][2][3]

Candidates who run unopposed are not printed on the official ballot.^[4]

Retention election[edit]

Judges on the supreme court and appellate courts are subject to the nonpartisan court plan and run for retention. Trial judges in five counties also run for retention in accordance with this plan. Those counties are St. Louis, Jackson, Clay, Platte and Greene.^[1]

See also[edit]

• Missouri counties
• Courts in Missouri

External links[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

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