OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Judicial Departments Judges of Judicial Circuits page 157 MICHAEL JOSEPH SCOTT (Democrat), Eighth Circuit, Division No. 15, St. Louis. Was born October 25, 1906, in St. Louis, Mo., the son of CHARLES and ELIZABETH BRODERICK SCOTT. Educated in the Harrison grammer school, Yeatman high school, St. Louis, St. Louis University School of Arts and Science and School of Law, all of St. Louis. Admitted to the bar in 1929. Is single and resides at 4209 Lee Avenue, St. Louis. Served ad Democratic Committee-man and as Alderman of the 21st Ward, City of St. Louis. Was vice-president of the Board of Aldermen, and served both as acting president of the board and as acting mayor of St. Louis for several days during the absence from the city of those officials. While a member of the Board of Aldermen, he served as chairman of the Natural Gas Committee, representing St. Louis at hearings in Washington, D.C., and as chairman of the Legislation Committee and City Athletic Commission. Also served as a member of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment in the absence of the president of the Board of Aldermen. Is a member of the St. Louis Bar Association, the Lawyers' Association of the 8th Judicial Circuit, the Elks and M.M.A. Is a Catholic. Was nominated and elected Judge of the 8th Judicial Circuit in 1936, being one of the youngest attorneys ever elected to a judicial bench in Missouri. His term expires December 31, 1942. Served in the Civil Division of the Circuit Court in 1937 and in the Criminal Division of the Circuit Court during 1938. At a meeting of Juvenile Judges for the State of Missouri at the Statler Hotel, St. Louis, Aapril 30, May 1, 2 and 3, he was nominated as vice-president of the Juvenile Judges of the State of Missouri, which action was ratified at a meeting in Jefferson City of all the Circuit Judges of the State of Missouri. At a meeting in Buffalo, N.Y., June 26 to 29, 1939, on matters of parole and probation, he represented St. Louis as Juvenile Judge, and was elected to the Executive Board of the Juvenile Judges of America, consisting of six members selected from Juvenile Judges in the various states. Is a member of the Missouri Bar Association. Norma