Chief Justice, Missouri State Supreme Court, 2025-present

Judge, Missouri State Supreme Court, 2017-present

Circuit Judge, Missouri 16th Judicial Circuit, 2008-2017

Appointed by Eric Greitens, Judge, Missouri Supreme Court, 2017

Former Member, Missouri Coordinating Commission on Judicial Education

Member, Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission

Former Member, Supreme Court of Missouri Committee on Access to Family Courts

Former Member, Supreme Court of Missouri Committee on Procedure in Criminal Cases

Former Member, Trial Judge Education Committee/ Judicial College Faculty/ New Judge Orientation Faculty, 2011; 2015-2017

Executive Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorneys Office, Western District of Missouri, 2007-2008

Chief of General Crimes Unit, United States Attorneys Office, Western District of Missouri, 2006-2007

Deputy Chief of General Crimes Unit, United States Attorneys Office, Western District of Missouri, 2005-2006

Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorneys Office, Western District of Missouri, 2001-2005

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Platte County Prosecutors Office, 1997-2001

Associate, Lathrop & Gage LC, 1996-1997

Student Law Clerk, Honorable Elwood Thomas, Supreme Court of Missouri, 1995-1996

Summer Associate, Lathrop & Gage LC, 1995

Constituent Services Representative, Office of United States Senator Christopher 'Kit' Bond, 1992-1993

Juvenile Detention Officer, Clay County Juvenile Detention Facility, 1992

Board Member, Catholic Lawyers Guild of Kansas City, 2008-present

Member, Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City, 2007-present

Member, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, 2007-present

Member, Missouri Bar Association, 1996-present

Lieutenant Governor, American Bar Association at University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law

Member, Lawyers Encouraging Academic Performance (LEAP), Kansas City

Former Member and Case Note Editor, Missouri Law Review

First Year Representative/Treasurer/President, Student Bar Association University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law

Member/Eucharistic Minister, Visitation Catholic Church, Kansas City, Missouri

Former Lead Master, Ross T. Roberts Trial Academy, 2009-2017

Judicial College Faculty, Trial Judge Education Committee, 2011, 2015-2017

New Judge Orientation Faculty, Trial Judge Education Committee, 2017

Awards:

Certificate of appreciation, United States Drug Enforcement Administration, 2004

Certificate of appreciation, Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department, 2005

Lon O. Hocker Award for trial advocacy, Missouri Bar Foundation, 2006

Award for Valor -- Certificate of Commendation, KMBC-TV and the Metropolitan Chiefs and Sheriffs Association, 2007

Judge of the Year, Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City, 2009

President's Award, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, 2014