Commission selects panel for St. Louis Circuit Court vacancy

St. Louis Daily Record & St. Louis Countian, Dec 24, 2004 by St. Louis Daily Record Staff

The St. Louis City Judicial Commission announced the panel of three nominees to be submitted to Gov. Bob Holden to fill the vacancy on the St. Louis Circuit Court created by the appointment Judge Nannette Baker to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District.

Those nominated by the commission are:

Edward Sweeney received his bachelor's degree from University of Missouri-Columbia in 1969 and his J.D. from University of Missouri- Columbia in 1974.

He was a member of the Armed Forces during the period of 1969- 1971. He was elected state representative for the 84th District in 1974 and re-elected 1976 and 1978. He practiced in private law from 1974-1986 and served as a trial attorney in the Circuit Attorney's Office from 1986-1997. He was appointed by the late Gov. Mel Carnahan as an associate circuit judge for the 22nd Judicial Circuit in December 1997.

His community activities include BAMSL Angel Tree Committee, BAMSL Mock Trial high school coach and competition judge, and he is a member of St. Joan of Arc Parish, various neighborhood organizations and veterans' organizations.

Marvin O. Teer Jr. graduated with a bachelor's degree from Lincoln University in 1985 and a J.D. from the University of Missouri- Columbia in 1989. Upon graduation, he served as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Clyde Cahill (1990-1992). He was appointed to serve as an assistant circuit attorney for the city of St. Louis from 1992 to 1998.

In late 1998, he was appointed as an assistant attorney general with the state office. He was appointed commission counsel for the Missouri Supreme Court from 2000-2002, until his return to trial practice as a special prosecutor with the Missouri Attorney General's Office for the Eastern District.

Currently, he is serving as an assistant city counselor for the city of St. Louis. He is a volunteer with Mentor St. Louis and the Teen Speak-Out Program and is a member of St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church.

Robin Ransom Vannoy received her bachelor's degree from Douglass College-Rutgers University in 1988 and her law degree from the University of Missouri in 1991. During the period of 1992-1995, she served as an assistant public defender for St. Louis County and as assistant prosecutor for St. Louis County from 1995-1996. She then served as legal officer for the St. Louis County Family Courts from 1996-December 2002. She was appointed as a Family Court commissioner, 22nd Judicial Circuit, in late December 2002.

She is an active member of Memorial Baptist Church, the Tower Grove Neighborhood Committee, a volunteer with Big Brothers and Sisters, truancy judge assigned to Vashon High School and a board member of CoCan (Counsel on Child Abuse and Neglect).

The members of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit Commission are: Chief Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals George W. Draper III, Laura T. Cohen, Eva Louise Frazer, M.D., Christopher E. McGraugh, J.D., and Thomas Schwartz, J.D.