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UPDATED: Dueker appointed associate circuit judge (access required)

Friday, August 13, 2010

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Joseph S. Dueker has been appointed associate circuit judge in St. Louis County by Gov. Jay Nixon. The governor’s office announced the appointment Friday. Dueker will fill the vacancy created by Douglas R. Beach’s appointment to circuit judge. Dueker was associate chief trial attorney in the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office since 2008, according to a [...]

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Courts budget faces additional $1.5M cut (access required)

Friday, June 4, 2010

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Gov. Jay Nixon is withholding $1.5 million more than expected from the budget for circuit courts.

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Fincham named associate circuit judge in Platte County (access required)

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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Gov. Jay Nixon has tapped a part-time municipal court judge for a more permanent position with the Platte County Judicial Circuit. Nixon this afternoon announced he’d appointed Thomas Fincham, a partner with Fincham & Salmon in Gladstone, as associate circuit judge to the Sixth Judicial Circuit. The position became vacant in light of Daniel Czamanske’s retirement. Fincham graduated [...]

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So we meet again (access required)

Friday, May 21, 2010

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Gov. Jay Nixon recognized a lot of familiar faces tonight when he scanned a crowd of Kansas City lawyers.

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Mo. Senate votes 34-0 on drunken driving bill  (access required)

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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The Missouri Senate has approved an overhaul of the state's drunken driving laws.

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Calvin withdraws from nomination to St. Louis police board  (access required)

Thursday, April 15, 2010

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A former St. Louis circuit judge has withdrawn his name from consideration for a spot on the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners. Gov. Jay Nixon had nominated Michael Calvin, now of counsel with Spencer Fane Britt & Browne, to fill one of two vacancies on the board that oversees the city’s police department. But appointments [...]

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Courts told to cut $500,000 before July (access required)

Friday, March 12, 2010

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State revenue continues to decline, so Gov. Jay Nixon says the state must cut another $126 million to get through the current fiscal year. Missouri courts must share in the pain, coming up with $500,000 in cuts between now and June 30. The administration left it to the judiciary and the Office of State Courts Administrator [...]

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Nixon proposes slight cut for judiciary, increase for public defenders (access required)

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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Gov. Jay Nixon proposed a $170,000 reduction to the Missouri judiciary’s budget next year, as well as a $2 million increase to the state’s Public Defender System. The Fiscal Year 2011 budget was released last night along with Nixon’s State of the State Address in Jefferson City. Nixon’s proposals aren’t set in stone. The House and Senate [...]

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Governor names Wilson to Cole County court (access required)

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

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The always busy circuit court in Jefferson City won’t be left wanting with Judge Richard Callahan’s resignation. Gov. Jay Nixon today says he’s appointing longtime state litigator Paul Wilson to serve as circuit judge for the 19th Circuit. Callahan is stepping down Jan. 15 to become the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, and Wilson [...]

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Bryan Cave attorney Walker named to poet laureate committee (access required)

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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When she’s not putting together real estate and construction contracts, Bryan Cave attorney Cheryl D.S. Walker will be critiquing meter and rhyme. Walker, who is of counsel in Bryan Cave’s St. Louis office, is one of the five members of an advisory committee that will help select Missouri’s second poet laureate. Gov. Jay Nixon today signed an [...]

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