Steve Stenger

Steve Stenger
Steve Stenger
8th County Executive of St. Louis County
	In office; January 1, 2015 – April 29, 2019
Preceded by	Charlie Dooley
Succeeded by	Sam Page
Member of the St. Louis County Council from the 6th district
	In office; 2009–2015
Preceded by	John Campisi
Succeeded by	Kevin O'Leary
Personal details
Born	Steven Stenger; St. Louis, Missouri
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Allison Stenger (m. 2009); Julie Stenger (div.)
Alma mater	Saint Louis University (J.D.); University of Missouri–St. Louis (B.Acy.)
Occupation	Attorney (disbarred); Certified Public Accountant
Website	archived campaign website
Criminal status	Incarcerated at FPC Yankton, #48972-044
Criminal charge	3 counts of corruption charges for a pay-to-play scheme exchanging county contracts for campaign donations
Penalty	46 months

Steven Stenger is an American former attorney and former Democratic politician. He served as County Executive of St. Louis County, Missouri from January 2015 to April 2019. He resigned his position in April 2019 after being federally indicted on honest services bribery and mail fraud charges.^[2]

Early life and education

Steve Stenger was born in the St. Louis Hills neighborhood located in southwest St. Louis, but was brought up in Affton, Missouri.^[3] His father was a union telephone lineman with Southwestern Bell.^[4] Steve Stenger graduated from Bishop DuBourg High School and briefly toured as a singer with two local bands, The Stand and The Painted Faces.^[5] Stenger then went to University of Missouri–St. Louis and majored in accounting.^[3] After that, he became a certified public accountant (CPA) and went to law school at St. Louis University.^[3] After law school, he got a job as a lawyer and CPA at Ernst & Young.^[4]

Political career

Steve Stenger was the prosecuting attorney of a city government from 2005-2008.^[3] He was on the St. Louis County Council from 2009 to 2015.^[3] He represented the sixth district, which contained about 145,000 people in south St. Louis County.^[3] He became Chairman of the Council in 2011. In 2014, he defeated Charlie Dooley, a long-time incumbent, during the Democratic primaries for St Louis County Executive.^[6] He proceeded to win the St. Louis County Executive general election, narrowly edging out his Republican opponent Rick Stream.^[7]

He took office as St. Louis County Executive in 2015. Stenger announced his resignation on April 29, 2019, after being federally indicted on three counts of honest services bribery and mail fraud. On May 28, 2019, Stenger was disbarred by the Supreme Court of Missouri.^[8] In August 2019, Stenger was sentenced to 46 months in prison and to pay a fine of $250,000. Stenger served his sentence at FPC Yankton and was released to home confinement on June 8, 2021^[9]^[10]^[11]