The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, plans to convene court Wednesday, February 22, 2023, at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The arguments are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. in the courtroom at the law school on campus.
A three-judge panel, consisting of Judge Tom Chapman, Judge Cynthia Martin and Judge Mark Pfeiffer are scheduled to hear oral arguments in five cases on the docket. After the oral arguments, the judges will take time to discuss the court system, explain the proceedings and take questions from the audience.
Chapman will preside over the proceedings at UMKC. He was appointed to the Western District in 2018. Immediately prior to his appointment, he served as a circuit judge for Missouri’s 43rd Judicial Circuit (Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb and Livingston counties) for more than seven years. He received his masters of law in taxation in 1995 from the UMKC School of Law. Martin joined the Western District in 2009. She practiced law in Kansas City and Lee’s Summit before joining the court. She is a 1984 graduate of the UMKC School of Law. Pfeiffer was appointed to the Western District in 2009. Before his appointment to the judiciary, he practiced law in Springfield and Columbia.
The court regularly convenes court in Kansas City at its courthouse. For more than 20 years, however, the court has held sessions in several of the 45 counties in the court’s jurisdiction, which includes all of northwest Missouri and most of central Missouri. The court convenes oral arguments outside of Kansas City to give individuals an opportunity to observe a part of the judicial system they normally do not see and to familiarize those attending with the court’s role in the judicial system.
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