Clerk of The Supreme Court of Missouri
The Clerk of the Supreme Court of Missouri is responsible for a wide range of duties, including the supervision of the internal administrative function of the Court itself as well as the planning and administrative direction of the Missouri Judicial Conference, the organization of all the state's judges. The office of Clerk is currently vacant, as the Supreme Court's long-serving clerk, Thomas F. Simon, retired May 31, 2011, after serving as clerk for over 40 years, since January 1, 1972. Upon his death at Capital Region Medical Center, in Jefferson City, Missouri, on Sunday, November 18, 2012, at age 71, numerous Missouri state legislators, Supreme Court justices, and county officials praised him as the voice of the Court and as one of the most influential people ever in Missouri state government (according to the obituary report by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Simon had been diagnosed with Lewy body disease, a severe form of dementia, a year and a half before his death, around the time he retired).
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