Glendy B. Arnold

The next year he was named circuit judge by Governor Elliot Woolfolk Major to fill a vacancy.

[14] Arnold proposed to the Missouri State Legislature in 1919 that voter registration be made permanent instead of expiring every four years.

[16] Arnold was elected a probate judge in 1934 and put into effect rules to provide additional safeguards for estates under his jurisdiction.

[7] In Arnold's first year as a divorce court judge, he was interviewed in December 1915 by St. Louis Post-Dispatch writer and illustrator Marguerite Martyn.

He denied a rumor that he was depressed by his work but offered his opinion that the divorce courts "are farce, a joke,"[17] adding: No, I don’t mean the cases.

Left, an imaginative drawing by Marguerite Martyn of Judge Arnold in his divorce court with disputing litigants and their child as a supine doll in front of him. Right, a photograph of the judge