Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1957 to 1962. After working in private practice in Kansas City,Missouri,he was nominated for the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. In 1956,President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Whittaker to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In 1957,he won confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States,thus becoming the first individual to serve as a judge on a federal district court,a federal court of appeals,and the United States Supreme Court. During his brief tenure on the Warren Court,Whittaker emerged as a swing vote. In 1962,he had a nervous breakdown and resigned from the Court. After leaving the Supreme Court,he served as chief counsel to General Motors and frequently criticized the Civil Rights Movement and the Warren Court.
William Strong was an American lawyer,jurist,and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1870 to 1880. Strong previously served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1851 and as a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1857 to 1868. He also served on the Commission that adjudicated the disputed presidential election of 1876.
James Thomas Blair Jr. was an American Democratic politician from the state of Missouri. He served as the 44th Governor of Missouri from 1957-1961,as well as the 35th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri from 1949-1957,and a member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
Joseph Patrick Teasdale was an American politician. A Democrat,he served as the 48th Governor of Missouri from 1977 to 1981. Teasdale was formerly a prosecutor for Jackson County,Missouri. In 1972,he made his first bid for governor,placing third in the Democratic primary,but attaining name recognition and the nickname "Walking Joe". In 1976,after initially running for U.S. Senate,Teasdale switched races and made a second bid for the Governor's office. He won the nomination and defeated incumbent Kit Bond in an upset. In 1980,Teasdale beat back a primary challenge from State Treasurer Jim Spainhower,but was defeated by Bond in a rematch. After leaving office,Teasdale returned to practicing law until his death.
Austin Augustus King was an American lawyer,politician,and military officer. A Democrat,he was the tenth Governor of Missouri and a one-term United States Congressman.
Stephen Nathaniel Limbaugh Sr. is a former United States District Judge who held concurrent appointments to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri from 1983 until his retirement in 2008. He was appointed by president Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s after a distinguished career as a trial lawyer in Missouri. Like his father Rush Limbaugh Sr. before him,Limbaugh served as president of the Missouri Bar from 1982 to his appointment to the bench. His son,Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr.,is a federal judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.
James Gooden Exum Jr. also known as Jim Exum is an American jurist who served on the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1975 to 1994,and as chief justice from 1986 to 1994.
Laura Denvir Stith is a former judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri. She served from 2001 to 2021. She was elected by her fellow Supreme Court justices to serve a two-year term as Chief Justice,from July 1,2007,to June 30,2009,becoming the second woman to serve as Missouri's highest-ranking jurist.
The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) was founded in 1874 by some 100 members of the St. Louis bench and bar. BAMSL currently has over 5,000 members and a vast network of committees and sections.
Mark Richard Kravitz was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
William Strother Cowherd was a Democratic Mayor of Kansas City,Missouri from 1892–1894 and Congressman from Missouri from 1897–1905.
Armstrong Teasdale is a partner-owned law firm headquartered in St. Louis,Missouri. The firm has about 800 employees in 18 offices and is one of the largest law firms in the St. Louis area. It was founded in 1901.
Zel M. Fischer is an American lawyer who has served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri since 2008. Fischer served a two-year term as chief justice from 2017 to 2019. A native of Watson,he received his undergraduate degree from William Jewell College and his law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. While at William Jewell College he was a member of the Alpha Delta Chapter of Kappa Alpha Order. He was elected as a Republican to serve as Atchison County judge in 2006 after private practice in Atchison,Nodaway and Holt counties for nearly 15 years.
The University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law is the law school of the University of Missouri–Kansas City. It is located on the university's main campus in Kansas City,Missouri,near the Country Club Plaza.
Eric Stephen Schmitt is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Missouri since 2023. A member of the Republican Party,Schmitt served as the 43rd Missouri Attorney General from 2019 to 2023.
Elwood Lauren Thomas was a judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri,under an appointment by then-Governor John Ashcroft. He was retained at the November,1992,election. He died while on the court from complications of Parkinson's Disease. He was remembered by his fellow judges as "one of the state's best legal minds." Before being appointed to the Supreme Court,Judge Thomas was a professor at the University of Missouri School of Law from 1965 to 1978,and then was a partner at Shook,Hardy &Bacon in Kansas City,Missouri.
Charles Blakey "Charlie" Blackmar was a judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri from 1982 to 1992,and chief justice of the court from 1989 to 1991. Blackmar was appointed to the court by Governor Kit Bond.
George William Draper III is an American lawyer who served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri from 2011 to 2023. He was appointed to the court by Governor Jay Nixon. Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court,he served on the Missouri Court of Appeals from 2000 to 2011. From 1998 to 2000,he served as a circuit judge in the St. Louis County Circuit Court;from 1994 to 1998 he was an associate circuit judge on the same court. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College,and his Juris Doctor from Howard University School of Law. His term as Chief Justice ended on June 30,2021. He retired from the bench on August 4,2023,one day shy of reaching the court's mandatory retirement age of 70.
George Bennett MacFarlane was a judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri. He was appointed to the court by Governor D.R. Francis in 1890 and served a two-year term. In the general election of 1892,MacFarlane was elected to the position for a term of ten years. However,MacFarlane only served eight years,until his death in 1898.
William B. Teasdale was a Missouri lawyer,judge and politician. He served in the Missouri Senate in 1888.
