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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Albert Riederer |
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September 30, 1945
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| Died | December 27, 2012
(67 years)
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| Contributor | None Entered |
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| Info | Born in Kansas City in 1945, Albert was the sixth of eleven children born to Sue Riederer and Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Henry Riederer. Growing up at 38th and Gillham, he attended St. James Grade School and Rockhurst High School. Albert attended St. Louis University and graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in History. He then attended New York University Law School as a Root-Tilden Scholar.
Albert is married to Sandy Midkiff, a state circuit judge in Kansas City. They attend Visitation Parish, where Albert serves on the parish council. They have two children, Rachel and Stephen. Rachel is a Harvard graduate and works with the homeless in New York. Steve is a senior at Quincy University majoring in psychology.
A member of the Missouri Bar, Albert first worked for the Legal Aid and Defenders Society in Kansas City. He then went into private practice and also earned a LLM degree in Tax from UMKC School of Law.
In 1978, Albert was elected to the First District at-large seat in the Jackson County Legislature. During his term he championed the building of the new jail, the introduction of 911 services and the Metropolitan Ambulance Services Trust (MAST). He was also chosen by his colleagues to serve as chairman of the legislature.
Albert was overwhelmingly elected in 1980 as Jackson County Prosecutor. He locked up the worst offenders on Kansas City’s streets and dramatically improved the safety of Kansas City’s neighborhoods. He took over an office plagued by low morale and ineffectiveness. He reorganized the child support division, established the independence of the prosecutor’s office and held the line on public corruption.
Reelected to a second term, Albert continued to use his position as chief law enforcement officer in the community to solve problems by bringing together the community and resources in a coherent effort to fight crime. In 1988, he prosecuted and convicted serial killer Bob Berdella.
Albert was reelected to an unprecedented third four-year term in 1988. Throughout that campaign, Albert heard from citizens disgusted by the inability of police and the courts to control drug houses. After the campaign, he organized neighborhood, civic and business leaders in support of a new initiative to fight drug crime by incarcerating dangerous criminals and drug dealers, treating non-violent drug offenders, and preventing children from using drugs. He spearheaded the initiative first through the state legislature, then the county legislature and finally the county voters. In 1989, county voters passed by more than 60 percent of the vote the first dedicated anti-drug sales tax in the United States. Now known as COMBAT, it brought better coordination among community groups and the criminal justice system, and it created funding for innovative programs like DART. The program is now a nationwide model.
After 12 years in the prosecutor’s office, Albert returned to private law practice and continued public service in many positions. In 1993, Governor Mel Carnahan appointed Albert chairman of the newly created Missouri Employers Mutual. MEM was created to help employers tackle the escalating costs of workers’ compensation insurance. The company is now the largest writer of workers’ compensation insurance in Missouri and has helped keep rates under control. Albert served as chairman for 12 years and left the board in 2006.
In 1994, Albert was hired as Secretary/Attorney to the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners. Albert served in that position until 1997, when Governor Carnahan appointed him to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District. He authored over 100 legal opinions as a judge. Albert served on the Court of Appeals until 1999, when he returned to private practice focusing on insurance law.
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