The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, plans to convene court Thursday, November 7, 2024, at the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia. The arguments will be held at Hulston Hall on campus. Beginning at 9 a.m., a three-judge panel consisting of Judge Mark Pfeiffer, Judge Gary Witt and Judge Tom Chapman will hear oral arguments in four cases on the docket. After the oral arguments, the judges will take time to discuss the court system, explain the proceedings, and take general questions from the audience.
Pfeiffer will preside over the proceedings at the University of Missouri. He was appointed to the Western District in 2009. Before his appointment to the judiciary, he practiced law in Springfield and Columbia. Witt joined the Western District in 2010. Immediately prior to his appointment, he served as an associate circuit judge in Platte County (in the 6th Judicial Circuit). Chapman was appointed to the Western District in 2018. Before his appointment to the court of appeals, he served as a circuit judge in the 43rd Judicial Circuit (Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb and Livingston counties) for more than seven years.
The court regularly convenes court in Kansas City. For more than 25 years, however, the court has held dockets 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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