20YEARS

WOMEN’S JUSTICE AWARDS COMMEMORATIVE EDITION TABLE OF CONTENTS

~ 5 ~ BALANCING THE SCALES Much has changed across Missouri’s legal landscape in the 20 years since the first presentation of the Women’s Justice Awards. By Catherine Martin

~ 10 ~ AN AWARD OF INTEGRITY In its 20-year history, the Women’s Justice Awards program has mirrored the growth and breadth of women’s contributions to law and public service in Missouri. By Catherine Martin

~ 12 ~ MAKING THEIR MARK Through the years, women carve out a place in legal history in Missouri and beyond. Timeline researched by Allyssa Dudley

~ 22 ~ IN MEMORIAM With respect and gratitude, we honor the legacies of these WJA honorees.

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y the time 1999 actually arrived, Prince’s megahit referencing the year as a tragic end and not a Note And so, 20 years after the first WJA recog- bright gateway to a new millen- B nition program, we continue to honor wom- nium already has been around a en attorneys in what has become an annual couple of decades. And Sandra institution of tradition in the Missouri legal Day O’Connor had been serving community. on the U.S. Supreme Court for almost as long. Frankie Muse Freeman headlined at that 1999 inaugural event as our first Woman of As its first female justice. the Year. No one else could have filled the Ever. role better. An icon not only in Missouri but in the United States, she was a civil-rights So when our company, which attorney who was appointed in 1964 as would come to be known as Missouri the first woman on the U.S. Commission Lawyers Media, chose to launch the Wom- on Civil Rights. She lived for more than a en’s Justice Awards in 1999 to honor the century while helping others through her accomplishments of female attorneys, it compassion and commitment. wasn’t because women had just begun to make significant contributions to the legal She paid it forward. profession. That’s what each of the women we have In 1648, Margaret Brent appeared before honored through the years probably would a court of law in the Maryland colony as the cite among the hallmarks of their careers. first woman to “act” as an attorney. In 1869, They each have reached a hand back to the Arabella Mansfield became the first woman woman on the step below. They know a pull admitted to a state bar. from above aided their own climb.

Clearly, female legal firsts weren’t a new In the 20 years of WJA, 436 outstanding phenomena in 1999, but it was a time of Missouri women have been honored for great anticipation. The waning years of the contributions across the profession as varied last millennium witnessed an accelerated as the women themselves. They share one participation pace by women into the pro- common trait that has nothing to do with fession. In just one decade — the 1970s — the number of chromosomes they carry. the number of female attorneys in the U.S. Simply put, they are truly exceptional grew from 13,000 to 62,000 — moving from lawyers. So enjoy this look back at two 4 percent of the profession’s total to 12 per- decades of celebration and recognition of cent. Today, women comprise slightly more achievements that only these women could than half of law-school students. In 1970, accomplish. less than 10 percent were enrolled.

Yet while parity may not be as elusive as it once was, it remains just out of reach in the Liz Irwin boardroom and the courtroom. Publisher, Missouri Lawyers Weekly Balancing the scales Much has changed across Missouri’s legal landscape in the 20 years since the first presentation of the Women’s Justice Awards

By Catherine Martin health care ethics at Saint Special to Missouri Lawyers Weekly Louis University School of Nearly two decades Law, where she’s spent her have passed since Sandra career. When she looks back H. Johnson accepted her on being honored as Woman Women’s Justice Award as of the Year, she speaks of Woman of the Year, but she being among people she’d still considers it to be one long admired and respected of the most meaningful on a night characterized by honors she’s received “mutual support and a high in a career packed with level of energy.” accomplishments. Much has changed across “To be honored by your Missouri's legal landscape peers, and especially a group in the 20 years since the like those with the Women’s first presentation of the Justice Awards, was really Women’s Justice Awards to touching,” said Johnson, the celebrate women for their 2002 WJA Woman of the contributions and service — Year. “I remember the whole and even more so through evening.” the decades in which many Known nationally as an of the honorees carved out author and expert on health groundbreaking legal careers. law and health care policy, Women now make up Johnson is professor emerita of law and CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 WJA words to live by What advice would you share with young women who are interested in the legal profession?

Missouri Lawyers Weekly 5 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 “I would tell them to not let their identity as more than half of law- woman or their identity as a person of color school students nationally, according to the American hinder them from that they can achieve. Believe Bar Association. In Missouri and around the you create your own destiny. If you work hard and make nation, more women are connections, genuine connections can help you go a filling positions at law firms, including leadership really long way in law school and your future career.” roles. Nearly 10,000 women attorneys now practice —Maikieta A. Brantley, associate at Lewis Rice and in Missouri — a far cry from the “count-them-on- 2017 Leader of Tomorrow one-hand” numbers many WJA honorees recall from changes in the state’s legal Awards do. They inspire said. their early-career days. landscape. What remains and celebrate.” Later, after she’d become Almost half of the Missouri the same, Johnson said, is an associate dean at SLU, Supreme Court judges are the supportive atmosphere ‘A tipping someone set up a meeting female, and women sit on that surrounds the Women’s for her with a senior benches at every level in Justice Awards and those point’ attorney in the late 1970s. the state. who have received them. Not expecting a female When the Women’s Today, Missouri’s women “It’s very inspiring for associate dean — Johnson Justice Awards started in attorneys say they still see me, especially to see the was the only one in the state 1999, they represented room for improvement, but younger attorneys now at the time — the organizer the first opportunity to stepping into leadership,” scheduled the meeting at they are gratified to have recognize female attorneys Johnson said. “I think that’s the Missouri Athletic Club, witnessed and participated in Missouri for their in major and ongoing what the Women’s Justice where the restaurant didn’t accomplishments, past admit women. “It was an winners said. interesting experience,” she Since then, the awards said. have recognized women N C E | Now, Johnson said she IE T E C C S H who made significant

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CHICAGO | DENVER | HOUSTON | KANSAS CITY | LONDON | MIAMI | ORANGE COUNTY grade school. changed the dynamics in the PHILADELPHIA | SAN FRANCISCO | SEATTLE | TAMPA | WASHINGTON, D.C. “Law students were Missouri legal arena came in mostly all supportive, but 1990, when Doreen Dodson some of them had to change became the first female their lenses a little bit,” she president of The Missouri

6 Women’s Justice Awards 20th Anniversary 2018 “Pick some area of the law and get really and supportive to seek their expertise or advice. Almost good at it. That’s going to be a ticket for always, those lawyers obliged. your success. Work really hard. Cover every “It was really wonderful detail. Always be overprepared. You’re going to get how the legal community supported us and helped a really good reputation and get the clients and get us,” she said. the results you’re entitled to.” Joan Newman, who started her career in 1972, said she initially looked —Mary Anne Sedey, attorney at Sedey Harper for job opportunities on Westhoff and 2005 Woman of the Year the West Coast because she’d planned to move after graduation from Bar. Johnson, the 2012 began to practice, their during one argument, a male Washington University WJA Woman of the Year, presence in court no longer attorney tried to muscle her School of Law with her also pointed to the growth was a rarity and prompted out from behind the podium husband, a California in numbers of female fewer questions about their to take center stage. native. To her surprise, judges since the first few competence. “I learned to literally hold she found Missouri to be began appearing on circuit “That was a tipping my ground and be really a more progressive region benches in the late 1970s. point that I think made a persistent,” she said. than either the West or East “The appointment of difference in terms of how Still, there were positives. coasts. women judges just cannot women were received as Sedey said she and other While interviewing in be underestimated for the practitioners,” she said. female attorneys often California, she had told influence it’s had on the law When Sedey, who was picked up the phone and leaders of law firms she and the positive effect it’s licensed in 1975, went to called male lawyers who had on the environment for the courthouse early in her were known to be helpful CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 women litigators,” she said. career, she said court clerks, As did numerous WJA court reporters, bailiffs and winners, Mary Anne Sedey, judges often mistook her for a nationally recognized a paralegal or a litigant. employment lawyer and Even after she had 2005 WJA Woman of the established a solid Year, cited increasing reputation, she said she numbers of women judges believed her arguments as a key to progress for all weren’t taken as seriously women lawyers. Sedey also as those of male attorneys, noted that, as more women Opposing male counsel attended law school and often interrupted her, and

“I would say, never say no to yourself. Let somebody else tell you no. Go for what Dollar Burns & Becker congratulates our partner you want, and don’t eliminate and friend the possibility on your own. Go for what you want, and don’t sell Jill Kanatzar yourself short.” on receiving the Women’s Litigator Award.

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became judges CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 Newman started there, leaving her without a female planned to have a family role model at the firm. religious leaders and asked if that would be a “When you look up at the •3 problem. ladder and you’re not seeing (two nuns, one rabbi) “They would say, ‘It is. anybody [who] looks like We’re not going to hire you, that’s hard, because you,’” she said. you want to be mentored as Newman said that a young attorney,” she said. •2state legislators wasn’t the case in Missouri, Newman stressed that however, and she started other lawyers at the firm her career in St. Louis, supported her, but she said U.S. Senator (Claire where she became a leader she would have benefited •1 in pension and employee- from having a female mentor. McCaskill) benefits law. She received Today, she said, most firms the Citizenship Award offer women’s initiatives presented in the inaugural and other opportunities for year of the Women’s Justice female attorneys to support •1 U.S. Attorney Awards; she now runs a each other. legal-coaching company. “It’s just different,” she said. (Catherine Hanaway) To Johnson, the rise of mentoring represents the ‘A mentor who biggest change for female looks like you’ attorneys in the years since she launched her career in “Really identify what you Although she found the 1970s. At that time, she want out of this career and Missouri firms to be said, only one St. Louis law more accepting of women firm had a woman partner. how you can best achieve lawyers, Newman said there By the time the Women’s what you want.” weren’t many of them when Justice Awards began in she began working here. 1999, many more women —Joan Newman, founder of Joan When she joined Lewis had become judges, Rice, she said there was partners and firm owners. Newman & Associates and 1999 only one female attorney Twenty years later, the older than her. That woman current-day legal landscape winner of the Citizenship Award left the firm shortly after includes a “real depth

8 Women’s Justice Awards 20th Anniversary 2018 More work “It’s being cognizant of the fact to do Challenges remain for that inclusion is what keeps women in the profession, ,” Brantley most notably in large firms people involved that lack equal numbers of said. “You can pick a woman candidate female partners, Sedey said. About one-third of the or a black candidate, but if that attorneys in Missouri are person doesn’t feel included in women, which is consistent with the national average, their environment, then according to a 2015 report by The Missouri Joint why would they stay?” Commission on Women in the Profession. They experienced circumstances diversity is more than just make up only about 20 in which her identity as a picking a diverse candidate. percent of all partners at woman attorney presented a “It’s being cognizant Missouri firms, according major obstacle. But she said of the fact that inclusion to the report. Nationally, she has experienced issues, is what keeps people women made up 22 percent such as implicit biases, involved,” Brantley said. of experienced women of all law-firm partners related to race. “You can pick a woman attorneys who can provide in 2016, according to the If the legal industry candidate or a black mentoring to younger most recent data from the wants to continue evolving candidate, but if that person attorneys as they enter the National Association for in a progressive way, she doesn’t feel included in field,” she said. Law Placement. said it’s important for their environment, then “Mentoring doesn’t have Part of the reason, Sedey its leaders to realize that why would they stay?” WJA to be gender-specific, but said, is that the path to for some experiences it partnership often involves helps quite a bit,” she said. a 60- to 80-hour work Other opportunities that week, which is difficult for exist today for women in any attorney but especially law include more options so for those who also are for alternative career raising children. Traditional paths and work schedules, billing-hour models, which Newman noted. generally dictate that an “I think law firms, attorney work a high number especially in the last 20 of hours each week, also can years, have really made hamper alternative or flexible great strides in paths that schedules, she said. women can work in a law “It’s a serious issue firms firm and still be valued but are going to have to come may not necessarily be on to grips with,” Sedey said. that partner track the whole Those statistics reflect time,” she said. even smaller numbers of To Sedey, it’s now clear minority women lawyers, when she goes to the who make up only 7 courthouse or a gathering of percent of all lawyers, lawyers that women are well- 12 percent of associates represented. She, too, noted and less than 3 percent of Congratulations, Lynette McCloud, partners, according to the that more women have been on being honored as a appointed to judgeships in NALP data. Corporate Award recipient recent years. Maikieta Brantley, who . “Women’s participation was recognized in 2017 as a is just there at every level,” Leader of Tomorrow, is just she said. beginning her legal career. So far, she said, she hasn’t CEA-11141-A © 2018 EDWARD D. JONES & CO., L.P. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Member SIPC

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By Catherine Martin the top women in the legal field,” said Voorhees of the Daily Record, Coving- Special to Missouri Lawyers Weekly Tedesco, now retired. ton, Teitelman, then-Missouri Bar Presi- Establishing the credibility of the dent Michael Gunn, Judges Jean Hamil- In the late 1990s, Sara awards was critical, Tedesco said, adding ton and Nannette Baker, attorneys Sally Sue Tedesco, then the pub- that she aimed to ensure they recog- Heller, Susan Block, Doreen Dodson and lisher of the St. Louis Daily nized true achievement — and to elimi- Mary Bruntrager, and community edu- Record, observed that nate any perception that they went only cator and leadership consultant Carolyn many prestigious awards to recipients who were major advertisers Losos. Members of the committee could recognized attorneys in St. of the Daily Record, which focused on not be nominated for the awards. Tedesco Louis, but most of them legal, business and real estate news. The committee sought and vetted honored only men. “We wanted to create an award that many nominations before selecting its When The Dolan Company bought had a lot of integrity behind it,” she said. inaugural winners in three categories: the Daily Record’s parent company Legal To instill that credibility, Tedesco Woman of the Year, Justice and Citi- Communications Corporation in 1997, went to Jefferson City and talked with zenship. The latter categories evolved however, the company introduced a new officials at The Missouri Bar to ob- because the committee wanted to rec- priority: creating and hosting public tain the organization’s backing for the ognize women who were doing notable events. Tedesco saw an opportunity. awards program. She also approached pro bono work, Tedesco said. The idea for the Women’s Justice then-Supreme Court Judge Ann Cov- Civil-rights icon Frankie Muse Awards was born, but Tedesco said it ington and Richard B. Teitelman — at Freeman, who won the landmark 1954 took until 1999 to get the program off that time the executive director and case that barred racial discrimination in the ground. general counsel of Legal Services of public housing in St. Louis, received the “It was a process. It took a while to Eastern Missouri. first Woman of the Year award in 1999. figure out how to set it up and how to With their help, she formed a selection Freeman, who practiced for decades, make it be an award that recognized committee that included herself and Sue also was the first woman to be appoint-

10 Women’s Justice Awards 20th Anniversary 2018 ed to the U.S. Commission women of achievement,” on Civil Rights. Publisher S. Richard Gard Jr., “She had done so much, said at the time. she had done quite a bit in New categories recognized, WJA the national arena, and [yet] among others, rising stars, she had not been recog- corporate counsel and busi- nized through just the legal ness professionals, judges community,” Tedesco said and other public officials, law of Freeman, who died at age students and legal scholars. at a glance 101 in January. “In just about all of the Given Freeman’s impres- categories, we were able to Since 1999, WJA winners sive resume, there wasn’t honor more than one stand- much competition for the out,” Gard said then. have included: top award that first year, The categories and number aside from Margaret Bush of winners grew again in Wilson, who received the 2009. One year later, the honor the following year, program went statewide, •436 winners Tedesco said. rebranded as the Missouri “Those two went head-to- Lawyers Media Women’s head the first year because Justice Awards. as far as women in law went, For the 2018 awards, the •37judges those were the leaders in our program once again has community,” Tedesco said. realigned its award categories In 2004, The Dolan Com- and expanded its statewide pany also purchased Lawyers selection community to Weekly Publications, which reflect the ever-increasing •25non-lawyers operated legal newspa- scope of work performed by pers in Missouri and other women attorneys in the state. states. The Missouri papers Although she’s no longer combined their operations involved with the awards, •12 prosecuting attorneys and continued to present Tedesco said the program the awards. In 2008, how- remains relevant, serving an ever, the awards program essential purpose as it honors added more categories and women and their contribu- honored more winners to tions to law in Missouri. double honorees, reflect the growing role and “The women’s legal •5 accomplishments of women community has grown, and who received awards in attorneys in St. Louis. they’ve gotten stronger and “We wanted to reach out they’re doing more,” she more than one category to more segments of the legal said. “I believe there’s more community and recognize to recognize than when we a greater representation of started.” WJA

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Missouri Lawyers Weekly 11 Woman of the Year: Frankie Muse Freeman Civil-rights icon Frankie Muse Freeman was the first Woman of the Year to be honored when the Women’s Justice Awards began in 1999. At that time, she had been practicing law for 50 years. Among her many accomplishments: Freeman served as lead attorney for the landmark case Davis et al. v. the St. Louis Housing Authority, which successfully challenged racial segregation in public housing in the city. She was also the first woman to serve as commissioner of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Freeman received numerous awards and recognitions for her work before and after being named Woman of the Year. She was named to the National Bar Association’s Hall of Fame in 1990, the Civil Rights Walk 1999of Fame in 2007, and the St. Louis Walk of Fame in 2015. In November 2017, the NAACP dedicated a statue of her likeness in Kiener Plaza in St. Louis. Freeman died in January at age 101.

Joan Newman, a leader in the field of pension and employee benefits law, won the Citizenship Award. She was one of the first women lawyers to work at a large firm in St. Louis. Newman now runs Newman & Associates LLC Behavioral Coaching Institute, which provides legal coaching. Gretchen Myers received the Justice Award. Myers, who worked as a principal at a law firm before starting her own firm, was the first woman to serve as president of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys. She also served as president of the Women Lawyers Association of Greater St. Louis. She continues to run her own firm in St. Louis.

Woman of the Year: Margaret Bush Wilson Another noted civil-rights activist, Margaret Bush Wilson, was named Woman of the Year in 2000. One of the first black women to practice law in Missouri, Wilson spent her career helping to improve the lives of African Americans as well as low-income people by fighting for employment, educational and housing opportunities. She also helped to draft a rent-con- trol ordinance in St. Louis. Wilson was the assistant director of Lawyers for Housing, an ABA/HUD-sponsored program to facilitate low-and moderate-income housing, and her efforts led to passage of the city’s Land Reutilization Law. She was the first black woman in Missouri to run for Congress and the first woman to chair the national NAACP. Wilson died in August 2009 at age 90. Vivian Eveloff, director of the Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life, received the Citizenship Award. She was an early pioneer of the women’s-rights movement and headed the institute, which focuses on making government accessible to all Missouri 2000citizens by encouraging women’s full participation in the policy process. since its 2002 establishment. She still holds that role today. Ann Lever, director of litigation at Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, received the Citizenship Award. Lever spent her career serving the low-income community, starting as an intern at LSEM while she was in law school. She retired in 2009 after 30 years of service to the organization.

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12 Women’s Justice Awards 20th Anniversary 2018 Woman of the Year: Sally Barker Sally Barker initially represented management in labor in employment cases before moving to Schuchat, Cook & Werner to represent unions instead. Barker also served as general counsel and member of the board of directors for the ACLU of Eastern Missouri, where she assisted with its high-profile constitutional challenge to the city of Florissant nativity- scene display. She co-founded the Women’s Political Caucus and organized the Win With Women Campaign. Barker is still a partner at Schuchat, Cook & Werner. In 2015 and 2016, she was listed as one of Missouri’s top 50 women lawyers and has received the highest 1999 possible rating from Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent. 2001, who served as Missouri Secretary Rebecca “Bekki” McDowell Cook of State from 1994 to 2001, received the Citizenship Award. As secretary of state, she began implementation of the statewide Motor Voter registration database, which dramatically changed the operations of the Department of Revenue. She also worked on the First Vote project to engage young people in the voting process. She now is retired. Diane Yu received the Justice Award in recognition of her lifelong commitment to encouraging women and minorities to enter law. Yu, the first minority woman to serve as associate general counsel at Monsanto, opened up opportunities for women to excel and assume leadership positions by doing so herself in Missouri and California. Later at New York University, she served as deputy president. She’s currently a counselor to leadership at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Woman of the Year: Sandra Johnson Sandra Johnson held several leadership roles at SLU, including provost — her position when she was named Woman of the Year. Johnson also served as associate dean and interim dean at SLU Law. She was the founding director of SLU’s Center for Health Law, which has been ranked as the top health law program in the country for more than a decade. Among the numerous awards she has received: the inaugural William J. Curran Distinguished Public Health Service Award for her work as director of the Mayday Project on Legal and Regulatory Constraints of Effective Pain Relief. Johnson also co-authored a casebook that is used at more than 150 universities and has been cited more than 500 times in scholarly articles and judicial opinions, including those of the U.S. Supreme Court. Johnson remains a professor emeritus at SLU Law.

The Hon. Brenda Stith Loftin, an associate circuit judge on the 21st Judicial Circuit Court, received the Citizenship Award. Loftin wrote and presented the 2002first judicial-education program in Missouri, introducing judges to racial, disability and gender-bias issues in the courts. Loftin retired from the bench in 2013.

Nancy R. Mogab, an attorney at Mogab & Hughes Attorneys P.C., received the Justice Award. Mogab, whose practice focused on worker’s compensation and Social Security disability, was the chairperson of the Worker’s Compensation Committee for The Missouri Bar. She continues to practice with Mogab & Hughes and has been in private practice for 34 years.

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Phoebe Couzins Mrs. Dodson (likely Alma Smith Lyda Burton The American Bar Association speaks on the Dodson) is the first woman Conley admits its first woman platform at the admitted to the Greene graduates member, Gratia Evelyn Democratic County Bar in Missouri. She from the Woodside, a native of Salem, National practiced law in Springfield Kansas City MO. Convention to with her husband, J.B. Dodson. Law School, advocate for becoming women’s rights. the first Native One year later, American she would become the first attorney in the female U.S. Marshal. United States.

Missouri Lawyers Weekly 13 Woman of the Year: Susan Rowe Susan Rowe started her career as a staff attorney at LSEM, and she remained active with the organization after entering private practice at The Stolar Partnership. When she was named Woman of the Year, she had been a member of the LSEM Board of Directors for 11 years and had served as its president and vice president. She was a member of the steering committee for LSEM’s major-gifts campaign and served on a number of other bar associations. As a partner with The Stolar Partnership, she focused her practice on employment law and general litigation. Rowe now runs her own firm, Rowe Law Offices.

Ann Carter Stith, an education and jail-reform activist, received the Citizenship Award.2003 Stith spent her career fighting for civil rights and equal treatment for African Americans within the criminal-justice system. She served on a number of task forces, community-agency boards and federal commissions before her death in 2005.

Karen L. Tokarz, professor of law and director of clinical education at Washington University School of Law, received the Citizenship Award. Tokarz remains at Washington University School of Law as a Charles Nagel Professor of Public Interest Law & Public Service and a professor of African & African American Studies.

Woman of the Year: Linda M. Martinez Linda Martinez, a partner at Bryan Cave, worked on numerous significant projects in her development practice, including the St. Louis Renaissance Convention Center Hotel, the Savvis Center, the renovation of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital, the Continental Building, the Kwame Building and the Crown Lofts. She also represented the Regional Housing and Community Development Alliance, the Garden District Commission and Grand Center, Inc. Martinez later served as chief of Missouri’s economic development office under former Gov. Jay Nixon. She worked at Bryan Cave for 35 years before becoming St. Louis deputy mayor for development in April 2017.

Betty Van Uum, who received the Citizenship Award, began serving as a national delegate at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. Van Uum also was the first woman elected to the St. Louis County Council. Van Uum now is chair of University Square, a partnership between the University of Missouri–St. Louis, North County 2004Incorporated, the City of Normandy and surrounding communities that aims to improve 2006 the area through housing redevelopment and other initiatives.

Photo courtesy Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Kathleen S. Schoene, a partner at Armstrong Teasdale, received the Justice Award. Schoene was the first woman to serve on Armstrong’s executive committee and the first to lead a firm practice group. She was president of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, the St. Louis Bar Foundation and the National Conference of Bar Foundations. Schoene died in August 2004.

early 1900s 1910 1915 1917 November 8 Tiera Farrow and Anna Lyda Burton Conley becomes With her appointment as a Tiera Farrow and 20 other Donahue open the first firm of the first Native American temporary probate judge, female lawyers form the women lawyers in Kansas City. woman to argue before the Frances Hopkins becomes Women’s Bar Association of U.S. Supreme Court, arguing the first woman In Missouri to Kansas City. for the preservation of a tract hold a judicial position. It is of sacred burial land located unknown if she was actually in what is now downtown an attorney. Kansas City, Kansas. She was buried in that cemetery in 1946.

14 Women’s Justice Awards 20th Anniversary 2018 Woman of the Year: Mary Anne Sedey Mary Anne Sedey devoted much of her career to advancing the status of women. Sedey was involved in the National Organization for Women and in the establishment of the first St. Louis chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association. In the late 1980s, she established new law while representing a juvenile-probation officer in Cynthia A. Forrester v. Judge Howard Lee White when the U.S. Supreme Court in January 1988 decided in favor of her client. After the probation officer sued a Jersey County judge for sex discrimination, the high court ruled the judge was not immune from suit. Sedey continues her work at 2003 Sedey Harper Westhoff2005 as a nationally recognized employment lawyer. Mildred Cohn received the Citizenship Award. For years, she worked to safeguard women’s rights with the Illinois League of Women Voters and the Missouri League of Women Voters; for women’s reproductive freedom with NARAL and the Statewide Coalition for Choice; and for free speech, the First Amendment and separation of church and state with the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri. Cohn died in 2015.

Beverly Beimdiek, who received the Justice Award, spent her career within the public-defender system. She joined the Missouri Public Defender in 1987, served as director of the Special Public Defender’s Office from 1992 to 1998 and moved to the Capital Litigation Unit of the Public Defender office in 1998. In 2014, she joined the Federal Public Defender’s office, where she continues to work handling any type of federal case that comes into the office. Woman of the Year: Shulamith Simon An inspiration to many women in the legal community, Shulamith Simon was the first woman to become a partner at a major St. Louis law firm. In 1963, Simon became partner at Sulkey & Jones, which later became Husch & Eppenberger and now is Husch Blackwell. Simon has taken cases to multiple levels, including the Missouri Supreme Court and the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She also served as a court-appointed amicus curiae in Liddell v. Board of Education, a 25-year St. Louis desegregation case. An expert in municipal law, she advocated in the courtroom for various municipalities as well as individuals and neighborhoods challenging redevelopment projects and zoning ordinances. Simon is semi- retired but still works at a solo firm.

Justice Award winner Gayle Williams, associate director of administration for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, dedicated her career to championing the rights of people who could not afford other legal representation. Williams retired from LSEM more than a 2006year ago after 41 years of service. Rep. Margaret Donnelly, D-St. Louis County, received the Citizenship Photo courtesy of The American Bar Association Award. In addition to serving in the legislature, Donnelly worked as an attorney who concentrated on family and juvenile law and previously as a school social worker. Former Gov. Jay Nixon appointed her as a circuit judge in August 2016. She remains in that role.

1917 1920 1922 1923 August 31 A group of female students Marie Ruoff Byrum, of Well-known Attorney Sarah Lucille Turner, petitions to form a chapter of Hannibal, becomes the first suffragist Emily of Kansas City, is the first Kappa Beta Pi at the Kansas woman voter in the state of Newell Blair, a woman to serve as acting City School of Law. By 1930 Missouri and the United States Joplin native, speaker of the Missouri House. the sorority had 34 active to cast her vote just five days serves as the members. after the 19th Amendment first woman passes and gives women the vice president right to vote. of the Democratic National Committee.

Missouri Lawyers Weekly 15 Woman of the Year: Sen. Claire McCaskill U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill was named Woman of the Year just a few months after her historic defeat of Republican incumbent Jim Talent. McCaskill began her political career by serving from 1983 to 1989 in the Missouri General Assembly, where she chaired the Civil and Criminal Justice Committee. In 1992, she became the first woman to be elected Jackson County Prosecutor. She held that position until 1999, when she was elected state auditor. McCaskill was unable to attend the Women’s Justice Awards event in 2007 because she was in Washington, D.C., to vote on an Iraq war-spending bill that called for early troop withdrawals, but she provided a prerecorded video message. McCaskill remains in the Senate after defeating Todd Akin in 2012 to hold her seat, but she again seeks reelection this year. 2007 Longtime LSEM attorney Kayla Vaughan, who devoted her career to combating housing discrimination and domestic abuse, received the Citizenship Award. She retired shortly before receiving the award.

Carrie L. Hermeling, the first woman to attain a chief executive position at one of Missouri’s largest law firms, received the Justice Award. She was the chief executive officer at Husch & Eppenberger, and became the St. Louis managing partner after the firm merged with Blackwell Sanders. She remains a partner at Husch, where she leads the firm’s real estate, development and construction industry team.

Woman of the Year: The Hon. Jean C. Hamilton Jean C. Hamilton’s pioneering career is notable for a series of firsts: first woman appointed to the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District, first woman chief judge of the appellate court and first woman appointed to the U.S. District Court in St. Louis. President George H.W. Bush. appointed her to the federal bench in 1990. She now is a Senior U.S. District Judge. In 2008, the Women’s Justice Awards added additional categories in order to recognize more women. New categories and honorees included: The Lawyer’s Lawyer, Ruth Ann Binger, Debbie S. Champion and Mary E. Coffey; Public Officials, Catherine L. Hanaway and the Hon. Mary R. Russell; Enterprise, Linda S. Legg; Citizenship, Lynn Loebner Rothbarth, Cheryl D. S. Walker and Patricia B. Wolff; Rising Star, Heather J. Hays and Joan M. Lockwood; Leader of Tomorrow, Kaitlin Ann Bridges, Latieke M. Lyles and Yeena 2008Yoon; Legal Scholars, Mary Margaret Beck and Maxine I. Lipeles. 2010

1925 1931 1938 1942 June 29 Tiera Farrow and Louise Esther M. Golly becomes the Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Mayce Jones Maness, a Byers organize the Women’s first woman admitted to the Kansas, becomes the Ripley County lawyer, is School of Law in Kansas City. Bar of the Circuit Court of St. American Bar Association’s elected as Missouri’s first Along with six other volunteer Louis County and the St. Louis first female committee elected female prosecuting instructors, Farrow and Byers County Bar Association. chairperson when she is attorney. give lectures. Fourteen appointed to head the women complete the course Committee on Aeronautical before The Great Depression Law. She serves in that post brings it to an end in 1927. until 1942.

16 Women’s Justice Awards 20th Anniversary 2018 Woman of the Year: The Hon. Carol Jackson U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson received the Woman of the Year award as her seven-year term as chief judge came to a close. Jackson, who joined the federal bench in St. Louis as a magistrate judge in 1986, was the first African American magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Missouri. She became a district judge in 1992 and served as chief judge from 2002 to 2009. The first black woman to serve on the court, she later became its first black chief judge. Jackson retired in August 2017 after more than 30 years on the bench. Award categories again expanded again in 2009. Winners included: Trial Practitioner, Alisse Camazine, Kathi Chestnut and Deirdre Gallagher; Business Practitioner, Jane Dueker, Rebecca Nelson and Therese Trelz; Public Officials, the Hon. Nannette Baker, the 2007 Hon. Catherine 2009Perry and the Hon. Carolyn Whittington; Public Service, Nicole Colbert- Botchway, Janis Good (died in 2013) and Marie Kenyon; Enterprise, Beth Anderson and Sarah Siegel; Citizenship, Susan Amato, JoAnn Karll and Linda Riekes; Rising Star, Amy Collignon Gunn, Connie McFarland-Butler and Amie Needham; Leader of Tomorrow, Ann Marie Harkins, Melissa Lin and Manasi Venkatesh; Legal Scholars, Carol Needham and Kimberly J. Norwood.

Woman of the Year: The Hon. Ann K. Covington Ann K. Covington was the first female judge to serve on the Missouri Court of Appeals and the Missouri Supreme Court. She was appointed to the appellate court in 1987 and to the high court in 1989. In 1993, she was appointed chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court — the first woman to hold that position. After leaving the bench, she went into private practice at Bryan Cave until 2010, when she retired from law after 33 years. The American Bar Association has recognized Covington as a Woman Trailblazer in the Law. The Missouri Public Affairs Hall of Fame inducted her in 2017. Covington, a long-time resident of Columbia, was the first Woman of the Year to be named after the Women’s Justice Awards, initially awarded to only St. Louis attorneys, expanded to become a statewide program. Other 2010 winners included: Trial Practitioner, Stacie Bilyeu, Denise Henning (died in 2016), Maureen A. McGlynn and Christine F. Miller; Business Practitioner, Mira Mdivani, Sandra Moore, Terry J. Satterlee and Ronda F. Williams (died in 2013); Public Service Practitioner, Effie F. Day, Sheila Greenbaum, Quinn Loring Grimes, Deanna K. Scott 2010and Mavis T. Thompson; Public Officials, the Hon. Kathianne Knaup Crane, the Hon. Cynthia L. Martin, Mary E. Nelson and the Hon. Nancy Rahmeyer; Citizenship, Colleen Coble, Joan Lipkin and Morey Mechlin; Enterprise, Rashda M. Buttar, Crista Hogan, Victoria Schatz and Deborah C. Weaver; Leader of Tomorrow, Portia Kayser and Sheena R. Hamilton; Legal Scholars, Carol Miller and University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law Dean Ellen Suni; Rising Star, Nikki Cannezzaro, Melanie Daily DeRousse, Charity R. Elmer, Mischa Buford Epps, Bridget G. Hoy and Erica L. Nuyen.

1942 1948 1954 1954 November 2 Dorothy L. Freeman becomes Grace Day Margaret Young is elected Grace Day applies for the first African American begins her magistrate judge for disability benefits after giving woman lawyer in St. Louis and law career. Buchanan County, the first birth to her children. Day is in Missouri. She would woman lawyer elected to the first lawyer to seek such be the only a full-time position on the coverage, prompting The woman Missouri judiciary. Missouri Bar to rewrite its policy lawyer in St. to include childbirth. Joseph for more than 30 years.

Missouri Lawyers Weekly 17 Woman of the Year: Grace Day Honored at age 84, Grace Day was one of the oldest female practicing attorneys in Missouri. Day began her career in the early 1950s helping women with divorce proceedings in an era before Missouri enacted no-fault divorce laws. For more than 30 years, Day was the only woman to practice law in St. Joseph. She eventually moved from her own practice to what is now Polsinelli while working in St. Joseph. Day was known for having one of the largest family caseloads in northwest Missouri, handling 50 to 75 cases at a time. In 2013, Day retired from law at age 87, ending her 63-year legal career. A documentary about her life, “Amazing Grace,” was released in 2015. Day died in July 2016. Other 2011 winners included: Litigation Practitioner, Dorothy L. White-Coleman, Teresa Grantham, Lori 2011J. Levine and Susan Ford Robertson; Business Practitioner, Cheryl A. Kelly, Kathleen M. Whitby, Stephanie Stenger Montgomery, Allison L. Bergman and Tracy L. Bornman; Public Service Practitioner, Prudence Willett Kramer, Jill Geary Patterson, Deborah Price and Kimberley R. (Cox) Fournier; Public Officials, Cat Kelly, Commissioner Peggy Davis and Sen. Jolie Justus; Citizenship, Francie Broderick and Millie Aulbur; Enterprise, Janet Robey Alonzo, Nancy E. Hamilton, Tamara de Wild and Heather Humphrey; Leader of Tomorrow, Jeryl D. Hayes, Erica F. Blume, Garnett Matthews Campbell and Silya Siniawski Teixeira; Legal Scholars, Hillary A. Sale, Susan FitzGibbon, Stacie Ilene Strong and Nancy Levit; Rising Star, Caroline Saunders, Jessica L. Kruse, Arimeta R. DuPree and Phyllis Norman-Komoroski.

Woman of the Year: Doreen Dodson Doreen Dodson established an impressive career as a partner with The Stolar Partnership in St. Louis, working in its labor and employment practice. Her real passion, however, involved working with the American Bar Association and The Missouri Bar, which elected her as its first woman president in 1990. She has served on many national ABA committees and chaired its Standing Committee on Judicial Independence. In 2013, she joined Polsinelli where she counseled nonprofit and for-profit clients in developing policies, investigating complaints and employee misconduct, and handling discipline and termination matters. She retired from the firm in 2017, and she was named to the American Bar Foundation’s Board of Directors later that year. Other 2012 winners included: Litigation Practitioner, Sarah Hellmann, Susan Jensen and Nancy Kenner; Business Practitioner, Suzanne Bocell Bradley and Joan Killgore; Public Service Practitioner, Susan Alverson, Michelle Nahon Moulder and Sherri Wattenbarger; 2012Public Officials, the Hon. Nanette Laughrey, the Hon. Mary Sheffield and the Hon. Ellen 2014 Levy Siwak; Citizenship, Roseann Bentley, Sister Berta Sailer and Rabbi Susan Talve; Enterprise, Ruth Kim, Randa Rawlins and Sally Surridge; Leader of Tomorrow, Lauren Collins, Nkechi Ekwunife, Stephanie Hudson, Jarica Hudspeth and Tiffannie Sears; Legal Scholars, Carli Conklin, Elizabeth Pendo, Ann Davis Shields and Wanda Temm; Rising Star, Ashley Baird, Ginger Gooch, Amy Hoch Hogenson, Tracey Martin, Kelly McCambridge and Christallyn McCloud.

1960 1963 1971 1971

Gretchen Huston is the first Hilda Neihardt becomes the Helen Fenlon becomes the Washington University caps woman law clerk appointed first woman to practice law in first woman in private practice the number of women by the United States District central Missouri. in Mexico, Missouri. allowed in the law school Court for the Eastern District of class at 12. Missouri.

18 Women’s Justice Awards 20th Anniversary 2018 Woman of the Year: The Hon. Laura Denvir Stith Laura Denvir Stith began her legal career in 1978 as a law clerk for the Missouri Supreme Court, which then had no women judges. She later worked for Shook, Hardy & Bacon, earning partner status in the firm in 1984. A decade later, she was appointed to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District. In 2001, Stith returned to the state Supreme Court as a judge — the second woman to do so — and served as chief justice from 2007 to 2009. She remains on the high court. Other 2013 winners included: Litigation Practitioner, Kristine H. Bridges, Michelle Boehm 2011 O’Neal, Theresa2013 A. Otto and Jenifer M. Placzek; Business Practitioner, Elizabeth Blaich, Kathy H. Butler and Kirstin P. Salzman; Public Service Practitioner, the Hon. Elizabeth A. Bock, Lajuana M. Counts and Mary C. Dahm; Public Officials,Jean Peters Baker, Jennifer M. Joyce, the Hon. Angela Turner Quigless and the Hon. Peggy D. Richardson; Citizenship, Nina Balsam, Martha Gershun and Claudia K. Preuschoff; Enterprise, Gina Boone, Rachael M. Dockery, Mary H. Karr, Karen R. McCarthy, Vicki L. Pohlman and Nancy C. Santana; Leader of Tomorrow, Rachel Berland, Sara Hofeditz Christensen, Elizabeth D. Hatting and Anne Legomsky; Legal Scholars, Adrienne D. Davis, Kelly K. Dineen, Barbara Glesner Fines and the Hon. Leslie A. Schneider; Rising Star, Raven J. Akram, Mara H. Cohara, Jacki Langum and Catherine A. Reade.

Woman of the Year: The Hon. Mary R. Russell The third woman to sit on the Missouri Supreme Court, Mary Russell was its chief justice when she was named Woman of the Year. Russell was appointed to the high court in 2004 and served as chief justice from 2013 to 2015. She previously sat on the Missouri Court of Appeals. In addition to her time on the bench, Russell was a partner for the Clayton & Rhodes Law Office in Hannibal. She also served as a law clerk for Missouri Supreme Court Judge George Gunn. Helping everyday people to acquire a broader understanding of the judicial system is her career mission, Russell has said. She remains on the Missouri Supreme Court. Other 2014 winners include: Litigation Practitioner, Jennifer Gille Bacon, Ketrina G. Bakewell, Lynne J. Bratcher, Sarah A. Brown, Dana C. Tippin Cutler, Deborah K. Dodge, Loretta Haggard, Pamela J. Meanes and Mary Doerhoff Winter; Business Practitioner, Jane E. Arnold, Julie Brown, Barb Miltenberger and Sheila Seck; Public Service Practitioner, Theresa Kenney, Dawn M. Parsons, Sarah Pleban and Jeanne Philips-Roth; Public Officials, 2014the Hon. Gayle L. Crane, the Hon. Sherrill L. Rosen, the Hon. Kathy A. Surratt-States and the Hon. Barbara Wallace; Citizenship, Amy A. Beechner McCarthy, Kimberly S. Bramlett and Beth T. Dessem; Enterprise, Jennie Clarke, Alice Conway, Susan M. Denigan, Penni M. Groves, Mary Caola Kullman, Cindy Dillard Parres and Elaine Harris Spearman; Leader of Tomorrow, Paige E. Elbe, Nicole S. Pleasant, Shelly Rosenfelde and Chloe R. Woods; Legal Scholars, Angela K. Drake, Rebecca Dresser, Janis Prewitt Auner and Kerry A. Ryan; Rising Star, Jovita M. Foster, Ashleigh MacPherson and Beverly Weber.

1973 1976 1978 1978

Grace Day becomes the first Attorney Alice Kramer is Judge Ellen S. Roper becomes Then-Gov. Joseph Teasdale female president of the St. excused from an Iron County a circuit judge under the names Ann Niederlander as Joseph Bar Association. courtroom for wearing Court Reorganization Act of an associate circuit judge pants, so she steals the sign 1978, the first woman to do so in St. Louis County. She is the warning that only a dress is in Missouri. first woman elevated to the appropriate garb for court. bench through Missouri’s nonpartisan court plan.

Missouri Lawyers Weekly 19 Woman of the Year: Virginia L. Fry Experienced litigator Virginia Fry, whose practice areas range from health care to litigation, was the first woman from Springfield to be named Woman of the Year. She began her career as an associate at Woolsey Fisher, a southwest law firm, and later joined Blackwell Sanders, a predecessor to the current-day Husch Blackwell. She became the second managing partner of Husch’s Springfield office — a post unique to Springfield, where relatively few female attorneys occupy leadership roles in the courts or local legal associations. Fry remains at Husch in its health care, life sciences and education-industry team. Other 2015 winners included: Litigation Practitioner, Lucy T. Unger, Sally I. Heller, Chantel L. Alberhasky, Shelly C. Dreyer, Elaine Koch and Teresa A. Woody; Business Practitioner, Annette2015 P. Heller, Lisa A. Epps and Susan L. McGreevy; Public Service Practitioner, Laurie Hauber, Wendy E. Garrison and Teresa Hensley; Public Officials, the Hon. Anne-Marie Clarke, the Hon. Lisa Page, the Hon. Sue Chrisman and the Hon. Edith L. Messina; Citizenship, Reena H. Carroll, Sister Anne Francioni and Susan K. Miller; Enterprise, Laura Frame, Zoe W. Linza, Kim Chaffin, Michelle Torline and Sebrina A. Barrett; Leader of Tomorrow, Claire Botnick, Taylor Jensen, Mary Hershewe, Elaine M. Smith and Kristen S. Johnson; Legal Scholars, Shannon M. Morse, Elizabeth P. Walsh, Nancy A. Allen, Erin Hawley and Mary Kay O’Malley; Rising Star, Kendra R. Howard, Andrea R. Long and Megan McCurdy.

Woman of the Year: The Hon. Audrey G. Fleissig Audrey Fleissig has worn many hats in a legal career in which she broke down barriers. She was a partner at a major law firm, Peper, Martin, Jensen, Maichel & Hetlage, a predecessor firm to Husch Blackwell, at a time when few women worked there as attorneys. She made partner while she was pregnant with her second child and working part-time. Fleissig later became an assistant U.S. Attorney and was the first woman in Missouri to be appointed as a U.S. Attorney. She also served as a judge at two levels of the federal court system — becoming a magistrate judge in 2001 and a U.S. District Judge nine years later. She remains on the bench as a U.S. District Judge in the Eastern District of Missouri. Other 2016 winners included: Litigation Practitioner, Irene J. Marusic, Mary Bonacorsi, Debbie S. Champion, Donna Harper, Melanie Gurley Keeney, Patricia Shilling, Tammy J. Glick and Melanie S. Morgan; Business Practitioner, Sara G. Neill, Sara Stock and Pascale Henn; Public Service Practitioner, Katherine Wessling, Lara Webb Fors and Jane Pansing Brown; Public Officials, the Hon. Lisa Van Amburg, Annette Slack, Janette Bleau, the Hon. Becky 2016J.W. Borthwick and the Hon. Lisa White Hardwick; Citizenship, Karen S. Kalish, Kate Nolen 2018 Proffitt, Gail Smart and Tishaura Jones; Enterprise, Julie A. Immer, Jenny Schwendemann and Sally L. Thieman; Leader of Tomorrow, Eleanor C. Gourley, Tamar E. Hodges, Mari Katherine Webb and Mary Kate Bird; Legal Scholars, Jacqueline Kutnik-Bauder, Geetha Rao Sant, Julie Cheslik and Melody Richardson Daily; Rising Star, Jessica Agnelly Krawczyk, Heather Bub, Jessica M. Mendez, Mara J. Lahnar, Anne-Marie Brockland, Stephanie Jean Bullard, Amanda M. Dumey, Ashley Hoover Schuette and Nicole Fisher.

1981 1983 1987 1988

President Evelyn Baker Then-Gov. John Ashcroft selects Jean Ronald becomes the Ann Covington, a Columbia Hamilton Reagan first African attorney, as the first woman becomes appoints American appointed to the Missouri Court the first Sandra Day woman of Appeals, Western District. woman to O’Connor as appointed Covington in 1989 would serve on the first woman to the bench become the first woman to sit the Missouri to serve on under the on the Missouri Supreme Court, Court of the Supreme Missouri Plan. and four years later would be Appeals, Eastern District, Court. named Chief Justice. appointed by then-Gov. John Ashcroft.

20 Women’s Justice Awards 20th Anniversary 2018 Woman of the Year: The Hon. Patricia Breckenridge Patricia Breckenridge, who was chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court when she was named Woman of the Year, was the fourth woman to sit on the high court. A native of Nevada, Missouri, Breckenridge began her judicial career as an associate circuit judge. She was appointed to the Court of Appeals, Western District, in 1990 and served as chief judge from 1998 to 2000. In 2007, she joined the Missouri Supreme Court. As chief justice of the high court, Breckenridge played a critical role in reforming the criminal-justice system. She pushed for training for judges to help overcome implicit biases, created a commission on racial and ethnic2017 fairness to respond to issues in the state’s municipal and juvenile 2015 courts, and formed a taskforce to examine pretrial incarceration practices. Breckenridge completed her two-year term as chief justice in July. She remains on the bench. Other 2017 winners included: Litigation Practitioner, Jamie Boyer, Sheena Hamilton, Andrea McNairy, Lisa Moore, Bridget Hoy, Erica Mynarich, Laurel Stevenson, Marie Gockel and Kimberly Jones; Business Practitioner, Tamee V. Reese, Evan Goldfarb, Stephanie Hosler, Emily Kembell, Ashley Norgard, Andrea Bough and Hayley Hanson; Public Service Practitioner, the late Holly Yoakum (died in February 2017), Cynthia Hyde and Cyndy Short; Public Officials, the Hon. Kathleen Hart, the Hon. Calea Stovall-Reid, Carol Aiken, Terry Daley Schwartze, the Hon. Karen Krauser and the Hon. Beth Phillips; Citizenship, Pat Simons, Joyce Blades and Latricia Scott Adams; Enterprise, Danielle Carr, Debbie Shantz Hart and Nancy Mellard; Leader of Tomorrow, Kaitlyn Parker, Sarah Carthen Watson, Maikieta Antionette Brantley and Nicole Gudmens; Legal Scholars, Jessica Kennedy, Antonia Miceli, Dr. Trina Scott, Rigel Christine Oliveri and Mary Kay Kisthardt; Rising Star, Laura Bentele, Sarah Mullen, Erica Slater, Luz Henriquez, Ami Harshad Patel Miller, Lori Rook, Ashley Twibell, Jennifer Bukowsky, Amanda Ketchum and Stacey Wullschleger. Woman of the Year: Dana Tippin Cutler Dana Tippin Cutler, Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s 2018 Woman of the Year, is a fitting choice as we mark the 20th year of the awards. Coming off an extraordinary year, Cutler in September completed her one-year term as president of The Missouri Bar, marking the first time a woman of color led the organization. She used her historic post to address the problems of implicit bias and created the Courageous Collaboration initiative to foster tough but necessary conversations in the workplace. In what is surely also a first for a bar president, she also embarked on a television career. Cutler’s show, “Couples Court with the Cutlers,” premiered nationwide. Cutler and her husband, Keith Cutler, are partners at James W. Tippin & Associates, the Kansas City firm that Dana’s father founded. Other 2018 honorees include: Corporate Award, Randa Rawlins, Janet Mark, Courtney Hayes, Jessica Johns, Rebecca Kujawa, Lynette McCloud, Mary Moorkamp and Sally Terrace; General Practitioner, Dawn M. Parsons, Jean Maneke, Diane Hook, Cydney Mayfield, Jessica Martin, Angela Myers and Laura E. Krebs Al-Shathir; Litigation Practitioner, Kim Benjamin,Tricia Campbell, Nikki Cannezzaro, Amy Crouch, Jill Kanatzar, Greer S. Lang, Melissa Sherman, 2018Phyllis Norman-Komoroski, Tiffany McFarland, Allison M. Murdock, Julianne P. Story, Carolyn Buschjost, Nancy Price, Maureen O. Bryan, Jessica L. Liss, Joan M. Lockwood, Mary Anne Mellow, Jo Anna Pollock, Jerina D. Phillips and Ashley Vaughan; Public Service, Deborah Daniels, Judith Westmoreland, Kelly Christine Broniec, Kimberly Fisher, Patricia Sullivan, Susan W. Photo courtesy of The Missouri Bar McGraugh, Thea A. Sherry, Monique Abby and Karen C. Nelson Warren; Pro Bono Award, Amy Rebecca Johnson and Tara A. Nealey; Leaders of Tomorrow, Maureen Hanlon, Abigail Williams, Lischen Reeves and Brandi Pikes.

1988 1992 2001 2001

Jane Pansing Carol Jackson becomes the Nancy Steffen Lisa White Brown is first African-American woman Rahmeyer, Hardwick of named the to serve as a district court appointed Kansas City first woman judge with her appointment in 2001 by becomes the partner at to the U.S. District Court for the then-Governor first African a law firm in Eastern District of Missouri. Bob Holden, American Clay County. becomes the woman Six years later, first woman to appointed to she would serve on the the Missouri become Clay Missouri Court of Appeals, Court of County’s first female judge. Southern District. Appeals, Western District.

Missouri Lawyers Weekly 21 WJA Past Honorees

Citizenship Mary Caola Kullman Reena H. Carroll Cindy Dillard Parres 2017 2016 Public Service Practitioner Sister Anne Francioni Elaine Harris Spearman Woman of the Year Woman of the Year The Hon. Elizabeth A. Bock Susan K. Miller The Hon. Patricia Breckenridge The Hon. Audrey G. Fleissig Litigation Practitioner Lajuana M. Counts Legal Scholars Jennifer Gille Bacon Mary C. Dahm Leaders of Tomorrow Leaders of Tomorrow Shannon M. Morse Ketrina G. Bakewell Kaitlyn Parker Eleanor C. Gourley Public Officials Elizabeth P. Walsh Lynne J. Bratcher Sarah Carthen Watson Tamar E. Hodges Jean Peters Baker Nancy A. Allen Sarah A. Brown Maikieta Antionette Brantley Mari Katherine Webb Jennifer M. Joyce Erin Hawley Dana C. Tippin Cutler Nicole Gudmens Mary Kate Bird The Hon. Angela Turner Quigless Mary Kay O’Malley Deborah K. Dodge The Hon. Peggy D. Richardson Legal Scholars Legal Scholars Rising Star Loretta Haggard Jessica Kennedy Jacqueline Kutnik-Bauder Kendra R. Howard Pamela J. Meanes Antonia Miceli Geetha Rao Sant Andrea R. Long Mary Doerhoff Winter Dr. Trina Scott Julie Cheslik Megan McCurdy Business Practitioner Rigel Christine Oliveri Melody Richardson Daily 2012 Mary Kay Kisthardt Enterprise Jane E. Arnold Rising Star Laura Frame Julie Brown Woman of the Year Rising Star Jessica Agnelly Krawczyk Zoe W. Linza Barb Miltenberger Doreen Dodson Laura Bentele Heather Bub Sheila Seck Kim Chaffin Leaders of Tomorrow Sarah Mullen Jessica M. Mendez Michelle Torline Public Service Practitioner Lauren Collins Erica Slater Mara J. Lahnar Sebrina A. Barrett Theresa Kenney Nkechi Ekwunife Luz Henriquez Anne-Marie Brockland Dawn M. Parsons Stephanie Hudson Ami Miller Stephanie Jean Bullard Litigation Practitioner Sarah Pleban Jarica Hudspeth Lori Rook Amanda M. Dumey Lucy T. Unger Jeanne Philips-Roth Tiffannie Sears Ashley Twibell Ashley Hoover Schuette Sally I. Heller Legal Scholars Jennifer Bukowsky Nicole Fisher Chantel L. Alberhasky Public Officials Carli Conklin Amanda Ketchum Shelly C. Dreyer The Hon. Gayle L. Crane Litigation Practitioner Elizabeth Pendo Stacey Wullschleger Elaine Koch The Hon. Sherrill L. Rosen Irene J. Marusic Ann Davis Shields Teresa A. Woody The Hon. Kathy A. Surratt-States Litigation Practitioner Mary Bonacorsi Wanda Temm Jamie Boyer Debbie S. Champion Business Practitioner The Hon. Barbara Wallace Business Practitioner Sheena Hamilton Donna Harper Annette P. Heller Suzanne Bocell Bradley Andrea McNairy Melanie Gurley Keeney Lisa A. Epps Joan Killgore Lisa Moore Patricia Shilling Susan L. McGreevy 2013 Bridget Hoy Tammy J. Glick Citizenship Public Service Practitioner Woman of the Year Erica Mynarich Melanie S. Morgan Laurie Hauber Roseann Bentley Laurel Stevenson The Hon. Laura Denvir Stith Business Practitioner Wendy E. Garrison Sister Berta Sailer Marie Gockel Leaders of Tomorrow Rabbi Susan Talve Sara G. 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