The Honorable
Sandra Farragut-Hemphill
Associate Circuit Judge, Division 42

Judge Farragut-Hemphill was appointed associate circuit judge on March 13, 1991.

Judge Farragut-Hemphill received her Bachelor of Science degree from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Florida School of Law.

From 1979 through 1981, Judge Farragut-Hemphill worked at the Jacksonville Legal Aid Society. In 1982, she moved to St. Louis and was admitted to the Missouri Bar and the United States District Court, Eastern District of Missouri. Judge Farragut-Hemphill was a staff attorney at Legal Services of Eastern Missouri from 1983 through 1986. She served as an assistant county counselor for St. Louis County from 1986 until 1988. From 1988 until her appointment to the bench, Judge Farragut-Hemphill was a partner at the law firm, Cahill, White and Hemphill. In addition, she served as an adjunct professor for the Washington University School of Law and St. Louis University School of Law.

In March of 1998, Judge Farragut-Hemphill was elected President of the Missouri Association of Probate and Associate Circuit Judges. She is a former board member of the Matthews-Dickey's Boys Club and the Girl Scout Council of Greater St. Louis. She is a member of the American Bar Association Judicial Division, the Mound City Bar Association, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Women Lawyers Association of St. Louis, the St. Louis County Bar Association and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Judge Farragut-Hemphill resides in St. Louis County. She has two children.