Hon. David T. Tunnell

David T. Tunnell is an associate judge of the 30th Judicial Circuit Court in Missouri, having been elected on November 4, 2014. He served as associate judge from 2015 until the end of his term on December 31, 2018. Prior to his judicial service, Tunnell worked as an attorney at Corbett Law Firm from 1999 to 2014. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1997 and his J.D. from the same institution in 2001. In the 2014 election, he won the Republican primary with 48.4% of the vote and defeated James M. Owen in the general election with 63.3% of the vote. He previously ran for the same seat in 2012 but was defeated in the Republican primary.