Mark A. Styles Jr. was appointed circuit judge in the 16th Judicial Circuit in Jackson County by Gov. Jay Nixon. He had been deputy probate commissioner, where he presided over the division’s mental health docket, guardianship and conservatorship docket, and miscellaneous probate docket. He was one of three applicants submitted to the governor for consideration by the 16th Circuit Judicial Commission under the Missouri Nonpartisan Court Plan.
