| Barbara Ann Crancer | |
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| Associate Circuit Judge of the 21st Missouri Circuit Court | |
| In office July 1992 – March 2008 |
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| Assistant Missouri Attorney General of Civil, Disability and Workers' Rights Division | |
| In office February 2009 – current |
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| Appointed by | Chris Koster |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Barbara Ann Hoffa Detroit, Michigan |
| Relations | Jimmy Hoffa (father) James P. Hoffa (brother) |
| Alma mater | Albion College Undergraduate Washington University School of Law Juris Doctor |
Barbara Ann (Hoffa) Crancer (born 1938), is a former St. Louis County (Missouri) Associate Circuit Court Judge and is the daughter of former Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa.
Crancer was born in Detroit, Michigan to James Riddle Hoffa and Josephine (Poszywak) Hoffa. 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. [1]
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 Lake Orion, Michigan.[2]