Hon. Gayle L. Crane

Gayle Crane is a circuit court judge serving the 29th Judicial Circuit Court in Missouri, Division 1. She was first elected to the bench in 2006 and re-elected in 2012, with her current term set to expire in 2018. Prior to her judicial service, Crane was a partner at the Law Office of Sotta and Crane, P.C., where she practiced private law. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Social Work from the University of Kansas and a Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law. In the 2006 election, she won the Republican primary for the 29th Circuit Court, defeating Karl Blanchard, and faced no opposition in the general election. She ran unopposed in 2012 and was re-elected.