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MISSOURI SUPREME COURT: 21st circuit commission postpones meeting to select nominees for Reno circuit judge vacancy, Dodson associate circuit judge vacancy in St. Louis County; interviews to take place as scheduled

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Missouri Supreme Court issued the following announcement on Feb. 4.

Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10.22(c), the Twenty-First Circuit Judicial Commission announced today it will not meet Wednesday, February 5, 2020, at the St. Louis County Court Building, as previously scheduled, to select a panel of three nominees for either the circuit judge vacancy created by the impending retirement of Judge Gloria Clark Reno or the associate circuit judge vacancy created by Governor Michael L. Parson’s appointment of Judge Jason D. Dodson as circuit judge. 

The meeting to select the panels to be submitted to Governor Parson will be rescheduled at a later date. Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10.28(d), the commission previously released the demographic information of the applicant pool and names of those to be interviewed for both vacancies. The information relating to the associate circuit judge vacancy was released January 14, 2020; the information relating to the circuit judge vacancy was released November 4, 2019. The commission will meet as previously scheduled, however, beginning at 8:30 a.m. February 5, 2020, at the St. Louis County Court Building, Room South 15, located at 105 South Central, main floor, Clayton, Missouri, to conduct public interviews of this applicant pool. The public is invited to attend and observe the interviews. 

The commission will announce at a later time the date on which it will reschedule its meeting to select a panel of three nominees for both vacancies. Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10.28(c), these meetings shall be closed to the public. The members of the Twenty-First Circuit Judicial Commission are: Colleen Dolan, chief judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, and chairperson of the commission; Tiffany Mapp Franklin, William P. Grant, Al Koller III, and Jeffrey D. Sigmund.

Original source can be found here.

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