JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — An administrative law judge at odds with Gov. Mike Parson's administration on multiple issues is out after the governor replaced him early this month.
Commissioner Sreenivasa Rao Dandamudi, appointed by former Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon and confirmed by the Missouri Senate in 2010, was serving an expired term this month when Parson, a Republican, replaced him with an attorney working in the Missouri Department of Revenue. Dandamudi's term expired in 2016, state records show.
Spencer Bartlett, who had served as general counsel in the revenue department since 2019, is replacing Dandamudi on the panel, according to documents Parson filed with the Missouri secretary of state's office on June 1.