Barbara Ann Crancer
Barbara Ann Crancer | |
|---|---|
| Associate Circuit Judge of the 21st Missouri Circuit Court | |
| In office July 1992 – March 2008 | |
| Assistant Missouri Attorney General of Civil, Disability and Workers' Rights Division | |
| In office February 2009 – March 2011 | |
| Appointed by | Chris Koster |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Barbara Ann Hoffa 1938 (age 85–86) Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Spouse |
Robert Crancer (m. 1961) |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent(s) | Jimmy Hoffa (father) Josephine (Poszywak) Hoffa (mother) |
| Relatives | James P. Hoffa (brother) |
| Alma mater | Albion College (BA) Washington University School of Law (JD) |
Barbara Ann Crancer (née Hoffa; born 1938) is an American retired lawyer and judge who was a St. Louis County, Missouri Associate Circuit Court Judge. She is the daughter of former Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa and Josephine (Poszywak) Hoffa.
Crancer was born in Detroit, Michigan. She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Albion College (Michigan) in 1960, and a Juris Doctor Degree from Washington University School of Law (Missouri). Crancer served as a private practice lawyer in St. Louis through 1989 when she was appointed Legal Advisor and then Administrative Law Judge for Missouri Division of Workers' Compensation, serving until 1992. In July 1992, Crancer was appointed to Associate Circuit Judge for St. Louis County, Missouri. Judge Crancer retired as an Associate Circuit Judge in March 2008, but in March 2009, Judge Crancer agreed to serve as an Assistant Attorney General to the Attorney General for the State of Missouri, Chris Koster, as Chief Counsel of the Division of Civil Disability and Workers Rights.[2] She retired from that post in March 2011.[3]
Her younger brother is James P. Hoffa, current president of the Teamsters Union. While the siblings grew up in Detroit, the Hoffa family also spent time at their summer cottage in Orion Township, Michigan.[4]
References
- ^ Krance, Magda. "HOFFA'S DAUGHTER". chicagotribune.com.
- ^ Koster names Judge Barbara Crancer to head new division on worker, disability and civil rights, Attorney General's News Release, Missouri Attorney General's Office, February 23, 2009. Archived May 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Honorable Barbara Ann Crancer Associate Circuit Judge, Division 31". St Louis County. Retrieved July 7, 2009.[dead link]
- ^ How one man's bad luck paved way for creation of Cranbrook The Detroit News, January 14, 2002. Archived May 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine