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Article: Missouri Supreme Court judge appointed; selection process criticized
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- St. Charles County Business Record
- Article date:
- December 28, 2007
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A storm brewed in Missouri for much of the summer as politicians
and interest groups criticized the Appellate Judicial Commission
over how the commission chose its nominees to fill a vacancy on the
Missouri Supreme Court.
After close to 12 years on the Supreme Court, Judge Ronnie White
retired at the beginning of July in part because he didn't want to
be portrayed as the poster child for judicial activism. He's been
practicing law ever since as a partner at the St. Louis law firm of
Holloran, White & Schwartz. At the end of July, the commission
announced its finalists for White's seat: appellate judges Nannette
Baker, Patricia Breckenridge and Ronald Holliger.
In September, Blunt named ...