The hearing for former Warren County assessor Wendy Nordwald Kozma scheduled for Monday, Feb. 9 on a motion for criminal contempt was vacated and a case review was scheduled for March 30 after Kozma provided a payment on her ordered restitution.

According to a memo filed Friday, Feb. 6 by the Warren County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, the previous motion for criminal contempt was recalled because Kozma “made reasonable effort to cure the issues,” in the state’s motion for contempt.

Specifically the memo states that Kozma provided communications between herself and the Missouri County Employee’s Retirement Fund that would allow the state to have direct communication with CERF regarding funds the program distributes to Kozma.

Additionally Kozma submitted one CERF payment in the amount of $535.89 to the state. On Feb. 6, Kozma also sent a photograph of a money order for an additional payment of $535.89 and promised to deliver the payment to the Warren County Prosecuting Attorney’s office.

Kozma also sent a photograph of a money order in the amount of $1,000 and promised to deliver that money order as well to the prosecutor’s office.

On Dec. 23, 2025, Kozma has agreed to reassign her CERF 10-year certified life insurance policy to the prosecuting attorney’s office, but on Feb. 5 she provided communications between herself and the CERF program that reassigning the policy is impossible. The $1,000 money order is meant to substitute for the promise to reassign the policy.

Based on those reasons the state requested that the motion for contempt be withdrawn and a case review scheduled in the case.

Kozma, who now lives in Florida, was convicted of 15 counts of stealing in 2022 for embezzling over $250,000 from the Missouri State Assessors Association. She was sentenced to pay $213,000 in restitution and four months in prison in lieu of a 10-year prison sentence.She served as county assessor for more than a decade and resigned from the position in 2020.