Congratulations to these 2025 awardees

The Missouri Bar congratulates the following individuals for receiving awards in 2025 for their work to improve the legal profession, administration of justice, and the law on behalf of the public. 

Read about this year’s awardees at MoBar.org/Awards.

Purcell Professionalism Award
The Missouri Bar Foundation

John W. Grimm, The Limbaugh Firm, Cape Girardeau

Anne Sallee Mason, Neale & Newman LLP, Springfield

W. Oliver Rasch Award
The Missouri Bar Foundation

Lawrence J. Altman, Avila University, Overland Park, Kansas

Spurgeon Smithson Awards
The Missouri Bar Foundation

Mary Fox, retired from the Missouri State Public Defender, Clayton

Barbara Glesner Fines, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Kansas City

Hon. Sherri B. Sullivan, retired from the Missouri Court of Appeals-Eastern District, St. Louis

Hon. David J. Dixon Appellate Advocacy Awards
The Missouri Bar Foundation

Andrew J. Crane, Missouri Attorney General’s Office, Jefferson City

Christine Lesicko, Watters Wolf Bub Hansmann, St. Louis

Renee Suddy, Missouri Attorney General’s Office, Jefferson City

Lon O. Hocker Trial Lawyer Awards
The Missouri Bar Foundation

Kaitlynn M. Donnelly, Office of Platte County Prosecuting Attorney, Platte City

Bryan Mathews, Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Union

John P. Schlesinger, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Clayton

Pro Bono Awards
The Missouri Bar

Luke Jackson, Weigl Jackson, St. Louis

Anthony Meyer, Meyer Moody LLC, Columbia

Marisa Alexis No, Joseph, Hollander & Craft, LLC, Kansas City

Monica K. Spier, Cisar Law Firm, Lake Ozark

Sarah Webb Elfrink, The Webb Law Firm, Perryville

Theodore M. McMillian Judicial Excellence Awards
The Missouri Bar

Hon. Tracey A. Mason-White (posthumous), 9th Judicial Circuit, Milan

Hon. Lisa S. Van Amburg, Retired from the Missouri Court of Appeals-Eastern District, Forest Hills, New York

Hon. Cotton Walker, 19th Judicial Circuit, Jefferson City

President’s Awards
The Missouri Bar

Scott A. Robbins, Kennedy, Robbins, Yarbro & Henson, LC, Poplar Bluff

William R. Bay, Thompson Coburn LLP, St. Louis

Diversity Champion Award
The Missouri Bar

Jerina D. Phillips, Lewis Rice, St. Louis

Warren Welliver Award
Missouri Lawyers’ Assistance Program

Amy Rebecca Johnson, Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal, P.C., St. Louis

James T. Britt Memorial Award
Missouri Lawyers’ Assistance Program

David W. Sweeney, Lewis Rice, St. Louis

Dorothy Kaiser Award
Missouri Lawyers’ Assistance Program

Ellen K. Haynes, Missouri Department of Social Services, Jefferson City

YLS Chair Awards
The Missouri Bar Young Lawyers’ Section

Johnny Boyer, Legal Aid of Western Missouri, Joplin

Paige Sparks, Sparks Legal, Washington

Tom Cochran Community Service Award
The Missouri Bar Young Lawyers’ Section

Jessica R. Langley, Berkowitz, Cook, Gondring Driskell & Drobeck, LLC, Kansas City

JoEllen Engelbart Award
The Missouri Bar Young Lawyers’ Section

Maggie McConville, Chapman and Cowherd, P.C., Chillicothe

Michael R. Roser Excellence in Bankruptcy Award
The Missouri Bar Financial Services & Insolvency Law Committee

Scott J. Goldstein, Spencer Fane, Kansas City

Roger P. Krumm Family Law Award
The Missouri Bar Family Law Committee

Michelle J. Spirn, Spirn Family Law, St. Louis

Defender of Distinction Award
Missouri State Public Defender Commission

Matt Waltz, St. Louis City Public Defender’s Office, St. Louis

Prosecutor of the Year
Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys

Mark J. Welker, Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney, Jackson

Wm. Locke Thompson, Cole County Prosecuting Attorney, Jefferson City