• District Court, W.D. Missouri

  Judge

  2008 – present · 18 yrsAppointed by George W. Bush

Career

• presiding judge

  2005 – 2008 · 3 yrs

• Judge

  Circuit Court of Missouri, Twenty-Sixth Judicial Circuit

  1995 – 2008 · 13 yrs

• assocate circuit judge

  1995 – 2004 · 9 yrs

• Prosecutor

  1991 – 1995 · 4 yrs

• Adjunct faculty

  Drury University

  1991 – 2004 · 13 yrs

• Assistant public defender

  1989 – present · 37 yrs

• chief assistant prosecutor

  1989 – 1991 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  Missouri

  1988 – 1989 · 1 yr

• Assistant prosecutor

  1988 – 1991 · 3 yrs