Edward D. Chip Robertson Jr. is a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri. Robertson was 33 years old when then-Governor John Ashcroft picked him to serve on the court and he served from 1985 to 1998. His appointment – Ashcroft’s first to the high court – led to claims that the non-partisan Missouri Plan for appointing judges was actually a highly partisan process; twenty years later Robertson would join opposition to Republican efforts to dismantle the system.
alma mater
Westminster College (Missouri), Southern Methodist University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, University of Virginia School of Law, University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law
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