OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Legislative Departments Members House of Representatives Page 103 GLADYS BERGER STEWART (Republican), Representative from Douglas County; born in Gasconade County, Mo.; educated in the public schools of Ava, Mo., Drury College and Southwest Missouri State Teachers College at Springfield, and the University of Missouri, and at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., where she received her law degree. She has served as a court reporter, congressional secretary, assistant United States attorney, and as a special judge of the 31st Judicial Circuit of Missouri, being the only woman ever to occupy a circuit bench in this state. Active in state and national Republican affairs for years, she was a delegate in three National Republican Conventions, is President of the Republican Women's Club of Douglas County, and Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the National Women Legislator's Organization. She is the only woman member of the State Council of the Missouri Bar Association and of the General Council of the American Bar Association. Elected to her first public office in 1934, when she was chosen as a member of the House of Representatives, she was selected to represent the 58th General Assembly at the second convention of the Council of State Governments in Washington, D.C. Re-elected to the House in 1936, the only Republican ever so honored by Douglas County, she again represented the House at the Council of State Governments third convention, also held in Washington. Again named to the House of Representatives in 1938, she was a member of the following committees in the 60th General Assembly: Appropriations; Judiciary; Railroads and Internal Improvements; Civil and Criminal Procedure; Penal Institutions. Norma