The Missouri campaign arm for Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has announced its top staff members assigned in the state.

Those staff members will oversee over 100 paid staff members on the ground, assigned to roughly 35 field offices all over the state, local Democratic operatives say.

(Officially, the Obama campaign isn’t commenting on staffing numbers.)

As a release notes: “The Obama campaign previously announced Buffy Wicks, a veteran field organizer, will lead the efforts in the state.  Other appointments of senior staff include Tod Martin as Deputy State Director and Debbie Mesloh as Director of Communications.”Here’s brief bios:“Obama Missouri Deputy State Director Tod Martin was born in Carbondale Illinois and moved to St. Louis to attend graduate school at Washington University. He was a founding member of the 15th Ward Democrats of St. Louis. After working on the 2002 Democratic Coordinated Campaign he served as Finance Director, and then Campaign Manager for St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay’s 2005 re-election campaign.

“ He then served as Campaign Director for Claire McCaskill’s 2006 United States Senate Campaign,” and most recently, he served as her deputy chief of staff. “Obama Missouri Director of Communications Debbie Mesloh is a native of the Midwest, most recently Kansas City, Kansas. She has served on the Obama campaign since September 2007 and led the Senator’s communications efforts in a variety of states.  She started her career as press secretary for the former mayor of Wichita, Kansas.(Wicks was previously profiled here at Political Fix.)The Obama operation has set up “Missouri Campaign for Change – a grassroots, voter contact organization.”

 Marlon Marshall, previously with Hillary Clinton’s campaign, is the new organization’s ”General Elections Coordinator.” 

Marshall grew up in Richmond Heights,  attended Ladue High School and the University of Kansas. In 2004, Marshall “worked for the Democratic Coordinated Campaign in Missouri and Ohio and then went on to work for the Kansas Democratic Party in 2005.

 In 2006 he worked for the Maryland Coordinated Campaign,” before joining Clinton’s presidential campaign as “the Field Director for the Nevada, Ohio and Indiana primaries.” The other Missourians leading the Missouri Campaign for Change: Field Director Peachy Myers from Rolla, Deputy Field Director Spark Bookhart from Kansas City and Deputy Field Director Dan Herman from Joplin.