Jenkins v. Bryles

PARRISH, Presiding Judge.

Peggy Jenkins (appellant) was employed at the Poplar Bluff Regional Center, an agency of the Missouri Department of Mental Health. She was dismissed from that employment on December 24,1987, for actions “considered to be physical abuse of [a] client.” Appellant first appealed her dismissal to the Missouri Personnel Advisory Board (hereafter sometimes referred to as “board”). § 36.390.5.1 The board approved and sustained appellant’s dismissal. Appellant then filed a petition for judicial review in the Circuit Court of Butler County. § 536.110. The circuit court…