Sedalia attorney James Hanson said people will elect him as municipal judge April 8 if they are dissatisfied with incumbent Deborah Mitchell.
A 2001 graduate of Ozark Christian College in Joplin, he graduated law school from the University of Missouri-Columbia in December 2004. He was editor of the Missouri Law Review.
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