16th circuit commission announces nominees for Rigby associate circuit judge vacancy in Jackson County

16 May 2023

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Sixteenth Circuit Judicial Commission has met and selected a panel of three nominees for the associate circuit judge vacancy in Division 30 of the Jackson County circuit court created by the retirement of Judge Twila K. Rigby. The nominees are:

Lauren D. Barrett – chief trial assistant at the Jackson County prosecutor’s office; five votes in support.

Robert E. J. Gordon – partner at The Gordon Law Firm LLC in Kansas City; five votes in support.

Abbie E. H. Rothermich – assistant attorney general in the Missouri attorney general’s office in Kansas City; five votes in support.

The commission has submitted the panel to Governor Michael L. Parson, who will have 60 days to appoint one of the nominees as associate circuit judge for Division 30.

The commission is chaired by Chief Judge Gary Witt of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, and is composed of attorneys Jill Kanatzar and Phyllis Norman and lay members Terry Anderson and Matt Haase.

Contact: Kimberly K. Boeding, clerk of court

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District

(816) 889-3600

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