Missouri lawyers elect 2019-20 members of Board of Governors, Young Lawyers' Section Council
The lawyers of Missouri, voting in districts throughout the state, elected nine new members to the 45-member Board of Governors of The Missouri Bar and retained 14 incumbents for new terms beginning this September.
The lawyers of Missouri, voting in districts throughout the state, elected nine new members to the 45-member Board of Governors of The Missouri Bar and retained 14 incumbents for new terms beginning this September. Members of the Board of Governors are elected to serve two-year terms. Newly elected members of the Board of Governors include:
District 3: Douglas Harris of Warrensburg
District 4: Joshua L. Hill of Jefferson City
District 8: Kate Noland of Liberty
District 10: Erica Mynarich of Springfield
District 11: Jennifer Matthew of St. Louis
District 12: Marc Erickson of Kansas City
District 13: Hon. Sandra West of Winona
District 15: Sander Sowers of Columbia
Southern District Diversity Seat: Christa Moss of Springfield
The following members of the Board of Governors were re-elected to a two-year term:
District 1: Hon. W. Douglas Thomson of Maryville
District 5: Hon. Charles Curless of Lamar
District 6: Andrew Lyskowski of Camdenton
District 7: Scott Robbins of Poplar Bluff
District 9: Amy Bender-Levy of Creve Coeur and Michael Downey of St. Louis
District 11: Brent Dulle and Maria Zschoche of St. Louis
District 12: Hon. Joe Dandurand and Lauren Tucker McCubbin of Kansas City
District 14: Eric Wulff of St. Charles
Western District Diversity Seat: Alexandra Wilson of Kansas City
Missouri Bar President-elect Tom Bender of Kansas City andVice President John Gunn of St. Louis were automatically retained for another term as they are serving as elected officers of the bar.
Members of the state bar Young Lawyers’ Section (YLS) elected six new members to that group’s governing council and re-elected 10 council members. New members of the council include:
District 3: Danielle Atchison, Amy Jackson and Sammi Sader of Kansas City
District 8: Adam Ford and Ashley Moore of St. Louis
District 9: Erin Pfirrman of St. Louis
Incumbents elected to another term on the Young Lawyers’ Section Council are:
District 2: Corey Moon of Edina
District 3: Bobby Thrasher of Kansas City and Kelly Collins of Independence
District 6: David McCain of Jefferson City
District 8: Matthew Jett of St. Louis
District 9: Shatrasha Stone of St. Louis
District 11: Nathan Dunville of Springfield
District 12: Michele Moyer of Camdenton
Jose Caldera of Columbia and Lauren Collins of St. Louis were automatically retained as both are serving as elected officers of the section’s council.
The newly elected and returning members of both groups will take office at the 2019 Annual Meeting of The Missouri Bar, which takes place Sept. 18-20, 2019, in Branson.
The Missouri Bar is a statewide organization that is dedicated to improving the legal profession, the law and the administration of justice for all Missourians. Created in 1944 by order of the Supreme Court of Missouri, it serves all 30,000 of Missouri’s practicing lawyers. The Missouri Bar provides a wide range of services and resources to its members, as well as the media, educators and the citizens of Missouri. To learn more, visit www.mobar.org and www.MissouriLawyersHelp.org.