The Supreme Court of Missouri has a new chief justice. Judge W. Brent Powell was elected to a two-year term leading the state ...

W. Brent Powell, who now lives in Kansas City, will replace current Chief Justice Mary R. Russell. Powell was appointed to ...

In 2008, then-Governor Matt Blunt appointed Powell as a circuit judge in Jackson County and in 2017, then-Governor Eric ...

Powell has been a Missouri Supreme Court Judge since 2017 when he was appointed by then-Governor Eric Greitens. He attended ...

W. Brent Powell will be Missouri's next Supreme Court chief justice, according to a Missouri Courts press release.