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Friday, August 12, 2005
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Blunt Appoints Jamison St. Louis County Circuit Judge
JEFFERSON CITY—Gov. Matt Blunt today appointed St. Louis County Associate Circuit Judge Mike Jamison to Circuit Judge of the 21st Circuit to replace Judge Kenneth Romines who Blunt recently appointed to the Eastern District State Court of Appeals.
Jamison, 45, was appointed associate circuit judge of the 21st Circuit by former Gov. Mel Carnahan in 1997. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Washington University in St. Louis and a law degree from St. Louis University. Prior to becoming an associate judge, Jamison worked in labor law as associate general counsel at Anheuser-Busch and spent 16 years with the National Labor Relations Board.
Jamison was one of three candidates for the circuit judge position sent to Blunt by the St. Louis County Judicial Commission, which accepts applications and selects candidates to fill judicial vacancies within this circuit. The governor can only appoint one of the three candidates submitted to him by the commission.
The five-member St. Louis County Judicial Commission is made up of the chief judge for the Eastern Court of appeals, two attorney’s elected by the Missouri Bar, and two gubernatorial appointees.
St. Louis attorney Tom Plunkert and St. Louis County Counselor Pat Redington were the other two candidates submitted by commission.