Students and interested citizens are invited to attend the court sessions of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, when it holds its Southern Division docket at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. March 30, 2022, at the Rush Hudson Limbaugh Sr. United States Courthouse, 555 Independence Street, in Cape Girardeau. The docket will be held in Courtroom 4B, and the court sessions are open to the public.
“We are pleased to be able to hold another Southern Division docket after restricting traveling dockets the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Chief Judge Sherri Sullivan said. “Prior to the pandemic, the court held dockets in the northern and southern portions of our district because there are many counties that make up the Eastern District of Missouri, and we do not restrict ourselves to hearing cases only in the main courthouse in St. Louis.”
Four Eastern District appeals court judges are expected to participate: Chief Judge Sherri Sullivan, Judge Michael E. Gardner, Judge Angela T. Quigless and Judge Cristian Stevens. The judges will sit in panels of three to hear oral arguments from attorneys involved in two cases appealed from circuit courts in Cape Girardeau and Ste. Genevieve counties.
Sullivan was appointed to the appeals court in 1999 after serving as a circuit judge, an associate circuit judge and an assistant circuit attorney. Quigless was appointed to the appeals court in 2012. She previously served the city of St. Louis as a circuit judge, an associate circuit judge, an assistant city counselor and an assistant circuit attorney. Gardner was appointed to the appeals court in 2020 after serving as a circuit judge for six years in the 32nd Judicial Circuit (Bollinger, Cape Girardeau and Perry counties) and practicing law in private practice in Cape Girardeau. Stevens, the court’s newest judge, was appointed in October 2021. He previously served as first assistant attorney general and deputy attorney general for the criminal division of the attorney general’s office and as an assistant United States attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri.
The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, is the state’s largest appellate court, with offices in the historic Old Post Office in downtown St. Louis. There are 14 judges on the court, which handles approximately 50 percent of the intermediate appellate caseload in Missouri. The court regularly hears cases in St. Louis, Hannibal, Cape Girardeau and other locations in the Eastern District.
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