sentences:  Governor John Ashcroft elevated her to the Missouri Court of Appeals in 1990, and she was retained twice in general elections.Breckenridge was one of three candidates proposed by Missouri's Appellate Judicial Commission to Governor Matt Blunt in 2007 to replace retiring Judge Ronnie White on the Missouri Supreme Court.Blunt expressed reservations about any candidate proposed by the Commission, but he favored Breckenridge over the two more liberal candidates and appointed her in September 2007.