Aldergeddon: New 9th Ward

The new St. Louis City 9th Ward includes parts of current 17th, 18th, and 28th Wards and is the result of Census Redistricting and Ward Reduction.

All 14 New Ward Profiles here.

Candidate Forum: February 16, 2023 9th Ward Alder Candidate Forum sponsored by Forest Park Southeast Neighborhood Association

2023 Alder Primary Results

18+ Population: 18,969
Registered Voters: 14,244 (75.09% Registered)
Total Ballots Cast: 2,204 (14.21% Turnout)
Total Votes Cast for Alder candidates:  2,751 – In St. Louis City Municipal Primary Elections, voters may vote for as many candidates as they want with top two advancing to General Election.
Board President
Megan Green: 1,499
Alder Candidates
Michael Gras: 868
Tina Pihl: 876
Michael Browning: 1,007

2023 Alder General Election

Current 17th Ward Alder Tina “Sweet-T” Pihl
Neighborhood: Forest Park Southeast
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: landlord
2023 Alder Primary: 2nd place of 3 candidates, 876 Votes of 2,751
Campaign Finance
March 2023 Report: $14,613.92 raised($500 FIRE, $500 JoAnne LaSalla- former City Budget Director/Bi-State Commissioner, $500 Betty Van Uum- former STL County Councilwoman/administrator at UMSL, $450 Sierra Club Mo, $200 anti-tax/anti-public school attorney Bevis Shock- Show Me Institute Board); $17,660.52 spent ($3,500 Public Service Partners- Kennesa GA, $1,050 SMD Writing & Consulting- using Ink Spot address, dba expired 2016); $19,411.85 on hand; $6,796.79 debt
February 2023 Report: $21,955 raised ($1,500 SEIU Healthcare, $1,500 SEIU MO-KS, $500 Laborers 42, $500 Laborers 110, $500 AFT 420, $200 former County State Rep Jeanne Kirkton); $4,113.10 spent ($1,050 Vanessa Carrol graphic design- she’s 6th Ward Committeewoman and treasurer of Progress PAC for Board President Megan Ellyia Green and 7th Ward Alder Candidate Alisha Sonnier); $22,458.45 on hand; $3,771.79 debt
January 2023 Report: $7,460 raised ($2,500 loan from candidate), $4,190.33 spent, $4,616.55 on hand, $2,714.84 debt
October 2022 Report: Limited Activity
July 2022 Report: $175 raised, $679.92 spent, $1,346.88 on hand, $86.72 debt
Treasurer: Justin Radick

Candidate for 9th Ward Alder Michael Browning
Neighborhood: Forest Park Southeast
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: senior grant specialist at Washington University School of Medicine; former vice president of FPSE Neighborhood Association
2023 Alder Primary: 1st place of 3 candidates, 1,007 Votes of 2,751
Campaign Finance
March 2023 Report: $35,788.76 raised ($2,600 21st Century St. Louis PAC/Civic Progress, $2,600 developer Steve Smith New + Found/Lawrence Group, $2,500 former Emerson Electric CEO David Farr, $2,000 attorney Jerry Schlichter, $1,957.38 17th Ward FDR Club- using Maplewood address, $1,000 IAFF 73, $1,000 UAW, $500 Lawyers of TIF David Sweeney, $500 St. Louis Realtors PAC, $500 Teamsters, $250 former Mayor Lyda Krewson, $100 St. Louis Building Trades) + $622.28 In-Kind ($184.84 developer Will Smith – New + Found; $20,328.04 spent ($17,784.98 MO Political Consulting); $20,801.07 on hand; $0 debt
February 2023 Report: $12,380 raised ($2,600 21st Century PAC/Civic Progress; $2,600 Commerce Bank, $1,500 loan from candidate); $11,061.82 spent ($7,430.13 MO Political Consulting); $5,340.33 on hand; $1,500 debt
January 2023 Report #2: $1,055 raised, $3,684 spent ($3,203.25 to MO Political Consulting), $4,022.15 on hand, $0 debt
January 2023 Report #1: $11,695 raised (including $1,000 from developer/Grove CID member Guy Slay), $5,043.85 spent (mostly to MO Political Consulting), $6,651.15 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Sarah Mangapora (project manager at Tarlton Corp)

2023 Primary- Other Alder Candidates

Current 28th Ward Alder Michael Gras
Neighborhood: Central West End
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: attorney; assistant prosecutor for Florissant Mo
2023 Alder Primary: 3rd place of 3 candidates, 868 Votes of 2,751
Campaign Finance
February 2023 Report: $13,105 raised ($2,600 21st Century St. Louis PAC/Civic Progress, $500 lobbyist Jeff Rainford, $500 SEIU Healt5hcare, $500 SEIU MO-KS, $500 IAFF 73, $500 LIUNA 110, $100 former Mayor Krewson); $7,097.53 spent; $11,161.43 on hand; $1,426.44 debt
January 2023 Report #2 Amended: one contributor info updated
January 2023 Report #2: $6,150 ($400 Electrical Workers, $100 Pier St. Louis developer, $100 former Mayor Vince Schoemehl, former 8th Ward Alder Steve Conway), $3,413.78 spent ($2,000 to campaign manager Katie Graham), $5,153.96 on hand, $830.15 debt
January 2023 Report #1: $2,860 raised (including $500 from #LawyersOfTIF David Sweeney, $100 from Denis), $759.02 spent, $2,417.74 on hand, $970.15 debt
October Report: $13,101.88 raised ($5,200 from Red Brick/Rothschild), $13,101.88 spent, $316.76 on hand, $830.15 debt
July 2022 Report: $750 raised, $1,752.01 spent, $460.66 on hand, $6,779.27 debt
Treasurer: self/Michael Gras

Other Public Officials Residing In Ward

School Board Member Matt Davis
Neighborhood: Central West End
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: attorney at Gallagher Davis
Campaign Finance
January 2023 Report: Limited Activity
October 2022 Report: Limited Activity
July 2022 Report: Limited Activity
April 2022 Report: $0 raised, $2,781.43 spent ($2500 to SLPS Foundation), $2,414.94 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Michael Roy

School Board Member Brittany Hogan**
Neighborhood: Central West End
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: manager at Center for Human Service Leadership, Delmar Divine. Board Member for the Innovative Technology Education Fund 
Campaign Finance
No candidate account filed with MEC

Ward Committees (PACs)

New 9th Ward Democratic organization: None

New 9th Ward Republican organization: None

Current 17th FDR Club Democratic Organization
Campaign Finance
December 2022 Report: $400 raised, $98.35 spent, $2,069.03 on hand, $0 debt
October 2022 Report: Limited Activity
Last report with activity- April 2021 Report amended: $1,392.10 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Sean P. O’Gorman (attorney)

Current 17th Ward Republican organization: None

Current 28th Ward Democrats Campaign Committee
Campaign Finance
December 2022 Report: $400 raised, $0 spent, $1,478.70 on hand, $0 debt
October #2 2022 Report: $0 raised, $302.97 spent, $1,078.70 on hand, $0 debt
October #1 2022 Report: Limited Activity
Treasurer: Heather Navarro (director of Midwest Climate Collaborative; former 28th Ward Alder)

Current 28th Ward Republican organization: None

Political Party Committeepeople

Current 17th Ward Democratic Committeewoman Amy Hilgemann
Neighborhood: Botanical Heights, New 7th Ward
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: social worker at Tenet Health Care
Other Elected Office: former candidate for State Rep., former School Board Member
Genealogy: wife of 17th ward Committeeman Bob Hilgemann
Campaign Finance
*No party committeewoman account filed with MEC

Current 17th Ward Democratic Committeeman Bob Hilgemann
Neighborhood: Botanical Heights, New 7th Ward
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: retired from Monsanto
Other Elected Office: former State Rep.
Other Party Office: former chair of St. Louis Democratic City Central Committee
Genealogy: husband of 17th Ward Committeewoman Amy Hilgemann
Campaign Finance
*No party committeeman account filed with MEC

Current 17th Ward Republican Committeewoman: Vacant

Current 17th Ward Republican Committeeman Dan Scott
Neighborhood: Forrest Park Southeast
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: landlord; bully
Campaign Finance
*No party committeeman account filed with MEC

Current 28th Ward Democratic Committeewoman Gail Farwell
Neighborhood: Central West End
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: Nurse Case Manager for Medical Homes-BJC HealthCare
Campaign Finance
*No party committeewoman account filed with MEC

Current 28th Ward Democratic Committeeman Parker Loveless
Neighborhood: Central West End
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: works at Sherwin-Williams; former dispatcher at Bi-State Development dba Metro
Campaign Finance
*No party committeeman account filed with MEC

Current 28th Ward Republican Committeewoman Taunia Allen Mason
Neighborhood: Central West End
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: communications manager at Saint Louis Science Center; member and treasurer for St. Louis Port Commission
Other Elect Office: former candidate for 28th Ward Alder
Other Party Office: serves on Missouri Republican Party State Committee
Genealogy: wife of Circuit Court Judge David C. Mason
Campaign Finance
January 2023 Report: Limited Activity
October 2022 Report: Limited Activity
July 2022 Report: Limited Activity
April 2022 Report #3: $3,391.15 raised, $3,794.91 spent, $730.34 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Robert Vroman (22nd Ward GOP Committeeman; husband of School Board member Natalie Vowel)

Current 28th Ward Republican Committeeman: Vacant

Former Public Officials

Former Mayor Lyda Krewson
Neighborhood: Central West End
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: former vice president of finance at PGAV Destinations
Other Elected Office: former 28th Ward Alder; former candidate for Board President 2002
Genealogy: mother of Jack Krewson (co-founder and chief strategy officer for Kairos private charter school); wife of television reporter Mike Owens; wife of Jeff Krewson, murdered in 1995 during an attempted carjacking in front of their home;
Campaign Finance
8/6/2024 Primary for citywide office per MEC record
January 2023 Report: $0 raised, $3,948.19 spent ($500 to Show Me Victories/Kelley Group, $1500 to Aristotle campaign management software), $337,460.92 on hand, $0 debt
October 2023 Report: $0 raised, $12,359.52 spent ($500 to Show Me Victories/Kelley Group, $1500 to Aristotle campaign management software), $341,409.11 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Harvey Citerman (corporate financial advisor consultant; second term on Waterman/Lake Special Business District Board, tax district; former appointee to Firefighters’ Retirement Plan Board)

Former 17th Ward Alder Joe Roddy
Neighborhood: Central West End
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: financial planner at West End Advisory Group
Party Office: former 17th Ward Committeeman
Genealogy: son of former 17th Ward Alder and former Circuit Court Clerk Joe Roddy
Campaign Finance
March Primary 2025 citywide office account per MEC record
January 2023 Report: $0 raised, $715.05 spent, $13,504.89 on hand, $0 debt
October 2022 Report: $0 raised, $161.19 spent, $14,219.94 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Mark Roddy

Former 18th Ward Alder Terry Kennedy
Neighborhood: Central West End
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: Clerk of the Board of Aldermen
Elected Office: former 18th Ward Alder
Genealogy: son of former Textile Union president and former 18th Ward Alder Samuel Kennedy, a survivor of the 1917 East St. Louis Massacre; his grandmother built a raft to float across the Mississippi to safety in St. Louis Mo; twin brother Gary Samuel “Dhati Majaliwa” Kennedy died in 2022 from leukemia
Campaign Finance
Terminated committee 1/17/2023
October 2022 Report: $0 raised, $0 spent, $0 on hand, $0 debt

Former 28th Ward Alder Heather Navarro
Neighborhood: Skinker DeBaliviere, New 10th Ward
Residence Tax Abated: No
Occupation: director of Midwest Climate Collaborative
Campaign Finance
March 2023 Primary for 28th Ward Alder per MEC record
Terminated committee 03/26/2023: donated $250 to Central Reform Congregation
January 2023 Report: $0 raised, $20,186 spent (most donations to non profits), $471.21 on hand, $0 debt
October 2022 Report: Limited Activity
July 2022 Report: $0 raised, $630.57 spent, $20,657.21 on hand, $0 debt
Treasurer: Christina Bennett (Assistant City Treasurer, serves on TIF Commission and Westminster/Lake Special Business District)
Deputy Treasurer: Brooke Williams

* Political Party County Central Committee ward and township committeepeople have the option to file their campaign finance reports with their county election authority- Board of Election Commissioners in the case of St. Louis City- or online with Missouri Ethics Commission. The St. Louis City Board of Election once posted pdfs of ward committeepeople campaign finance reports to the Board’s website. That is no longer the case. To inspect records, you must visit the Board in pers

** Appointed by Mayor Tishaura Jones to fill vacancy. Term expires April 2023.