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AWARDS CEREMONY • APRIL 21, 2017

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3 CITATION OF MERIT Rodney E. Loomer, ’74

4 CITATION OF MERIT Rhonda C. Thomas, ’73

5 DISTINGUISHED RECENT GRADUATE AWARD Darryl M. Chatman, ’08

6 DISTINGUISHED NON-ALUMNUS AWARD Professor Joan Krauskopf

7 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD Chad A. Troutwine, ’97

8 JUDGE L.F. COTTEY ADVOCACY AWARD Abigail Williams, 2L

9 HUSCH BLACKWELL DISTINGUISHED FACULTY AWARD Professor Rafael Gely

10 SHOOK, HARDY & BACON LLP EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH AWARD Professor S.I. Strong

11 LOYD E. ROBERTS MEMORIAL PRIZE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE Professor Wilson Freyermuth

12 ORDER OF THE COIF MEETING

13 ORDER OF THE COIF HONORARY INITIATE MaryMichael Sterchi, ’82

14 ORDER OF BARRISTERS MEETING

15 THE ORDER OF BARRISTERS HONORARY INITIATE Morry S. Cole, ’97

16 LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION MEETING

17 PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS

2017 LAW DAY AWARDS CEREMONY

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CITATION OF MERIT

RODNEY E. LOOMER, ’74presented by the Honorable Gary Oxenhandler, ’73

RODNEY E. LOOMER, ’74, was admitted to The Missouri Bar in 1974, after receiving his law degree from University of Missouri. He completed his undergraduate degree at Missouri State University in Springfield in 1971.

Loomer joined the firm of Turner, Reid, Duncan, Loomer & Patton in Springfield in 1974. His practice is concentrated on products liability, insurance defense and medical malpractice. He has been lead trial lawyer in cases tried in Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Kansas, Arkansas, Illinois and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He is admitted to practice in the following courts: U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri; U.S. Court Appeals, 8th Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit; and the United States Supreme Court.

Loomer's legal career has been distinguished by awards and honors, including: Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers; membership in the American Bar Foundation; and participation in the Products Liability Advisory Council. He received The Missouri Bar President's Award in 1995 and was named one of the “Best Lawyers in America” from 1996-2014, as well as Best Lawyers' Lawyer of the Year for Products Liability-Defense in 2013 and 2014. He is also a recognized Missouri SuperLawyer and is rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell.

Loomer is a member of the Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association (president, 2001); The Missouri Bar (representative, Young Lawyers Section, 1979-1985; member, Board of Governors, 1985-1993); Defense Research Institute; American Board of Trial Advocates; American Counsel Association; American Bar Association; and the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers.

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CITATION OF MERIT

RHONDA C. THOMAS, ’73presented by Jan Robey Alonzo, ’82

RHONDA C. THOMAS, ’73, has been a partner in Thompson Coburn LLP for more than 27 years, practicing public and corporate law. She graduated from the law school in 1973, completing her third year at Yale Law School.

Thomas’ legal career began when she served as the first female clerk for the Missouri Supreme Court for Judge Robert E. Seiler, ’35. Her law practice was launched in the City of Columbia’s municipal attorney’s office, where she was named as city counselor in 1976. While working for the city, she taught at the law school part time and was appointed as a full-time law professor in 1979, teaching federal income taxation, federal administrative law, legislation, state and local government law, and state and local government taxation. Thomas left teaching to enter private practice with the firm of Gilmore & Bell, P.C., in 1982, joined Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis in 1985 and moved her practice to Chicago in 2001.

During her legal career, Thomas has been at the forefront of substantial public finance transactions across the Midwest. She has structured financings for major urban development projects including projects in St. Louis and Chicago, such as the Edward Jones Dome. She has also led complex, large-scale projects for public and private-sector clients, and represented the University of Missouri as a client on a wide range of matters.

Continued support for Mizzou has been an ongoing passion for Thomas. She serves on the cabinet for Mizzou’s $1.3 billion “Our Time to Lead” campaign and is a member of Mizzou Women Give, Griffiths Leadership Society for Women, Jefferson Club and Mizzou Alumni Association. She is a past president of the Law School Foundation. In addition, Thomas loves the arts and has served on the boards of the Missouri Arts Council, Landmark’s Illinois, Dance St. Louis, Friends of the Sheldon Concert Hall, River North Chicago Dance Company and the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Donor’s Circle Council.

Thomas’ receipt of the Citation of Merit puts her in sync with her husband of 47 years, Regan Thomas, M.D., ’72, who received MU School of Medicine’s Citation of Merit award in 2012. She and her husband have three children – daughter Ryan and sons Aaron and Evan. None are Mizzou grads, but Thomas has started a Mizzou college fund for granddaughter Levi.

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DARRYL M. CHATMAN, ’08, has an expansive career with vast work experiences. He has worked at Armstrong Teasdale LLP, the Missouri Department of Agriculture, Monsanto and the Missouri Agricultural Foundation, where he still serves as executive director.

Chatman is general counsel for the Missouri Department of Agriculture. Previously he has worked for Armstrong Teasdale LLP in St. Louis, Mo., as the leader of the firm’s Ag and Biotech practice group, and as the deputy director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture.

Chatman holds four degrees from the University of Missouri – a B.S. (1997) and M.S. (2001) in animal sciences, an M.S. in agricultural economics (2007) and a J.D. (2008). He also holds a master’s in public administration from North Carolina State University (2003). He is a member of the search committee for the MU College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources (CAFNR) vice chancellor and dean position, and has been part of the Vice Chancellor’s Leadership Council in CAFNR. Chatman has been appointed by the governor to serve on the University of Missouri System Board of Curators.

“Darryl has gone above and beyond with his education by receiving degrees in animal science, agriculture and public affairs,” said Brian Munzlinger, state senator, District 18. “When that task was over, he took his education even further by receiving his juris doctor. Darryl’s educational background is exceptional, and his professional ethic is nothing short of the same.”

“I had the opportunity to hire Darryl as deputy director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture in December of 2014. Darryl immediately embraced the position with class, passion and a great deal of knowledge,” Richard Fordyce, former director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture, said. “We worked together to communicate the good story of agriculture to our ag audiences, but maybe more importantly, the audiences in urban and suburban Missouri. Darryl was able to articulate a message to non-traditional audiences that we had not successfully reached in the past.”

DISTINGUISHED RECENT GRADUATE AWARD

DARRYL M. CHATMAN, ’08presented by Assistant Dean Bob Bailey, ’79

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DISTINGUISHED NON-ALUMNUS AWARD

PROFESSOR JOAN KRAUSKOPFpresented by the Honorable Nanette K. Laughrey, ’75

JOAN M. KRAUSKOPF taught at the School of Law from 1963 to 1987 as its first female faculty member. Her courses included Family Law, Torts and Elderlaw Seminar. Before joining the faculty, she taught at The Ohio State University and was in private practice in Colorado. After leaving MU, she returned to The Ohio State University as a professor of law and was later named Presidents’ Club Professor of Law before her retirement in 1997.

Krauskopf’s contributions to the legal profession are extraordinary at every level, including service as a member of the American Law Institute, on the editorial board of the American Bar Association’s Family Advocate, as a commissioner of the Missouri Human Rights Commission and as president of the National Order of the Coif. While at MU, she was a member of the board of directors for the National Organization for Women Legal Education and Defense Fund.

Krauskopf was widely published during her career, including writing or co-writing several books on elder and marital law and dozens of articles in both bar journals and academic journals including the Journal of Legal Education, the Victoria University Faculty Law Review, the Missouri Law Review, the Kansas Law Review and the Ohio State Law Journal.

During her career, Krauskopf received several awards and honors. In 1987, she was the recipient of the President’s 300th Commencement Award from The Ohio State University. While at MU, she received a Faculty Alumni Award from the Mizzou Alumni Association (1985) and the University of Missouri Alumnae Anniversary Award to an Outstanding Faculty Woman (1977). In 1979, she received the Alumni Medal of Merit from Ohio University.

Krauskopf received her law degree, summa cum laude, from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1957. She graduated Order of the Coif and as a student was co-editor-in-chief of the Ohio State Law Journal. Before attending law school, she received an A.B. from Ohio University in 1954, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

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CHAD A. TROUTWINE, ’97, is an entrepreneur, educator and filmmaker. He is co-founder and CEO of Veritas Prep, the nation’s largest privately-held college test prep and admissions consultancy; Codesmith, an immersive software engineering academy in Los Angeles; and Spectrum Station, the largest preschool in Missouri. He and his team of more than 700 educators instruct more than 10,000 students each year. With his parents, Cecil and Carol Troutwine, he also co-founded Torn Label, a craft microbrewery in Kansas City’s Crossroads, and co-owns Rock Bridge Brewery in Columbia. Troutwine has financed and produced 17 documentary and narrative feature films, including Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, Emmy and Academy award winners. In 2011, he co-founded Freakonomics Media, which today produces one of the world's most popular podcasts.

Troutwine graduated from Harvard University, earned an M.B.A with distinction from the Yale University School of Management, and graduated Order of the Barristers from the University of Missouri School of Law, where he established an advocacy award in the name of his parents. He is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, happily married to Sacha Radford Troutwine and the father of a 15-month old daughter, Emmanuelle.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD

CHAD A. TROUTWINE, ’97 presented by Jason Kander

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ABIGAIL WILLIAMS is a second-year law student from Lake Ozark, Mo. She graduated with honors and highest distinction from the University of Kansas with a bachelor of arts in political science and a minor in English. Last summer, Williams was one of two Mizzou Law students selected to participate in the Judge Crahan Memorial Judicial Fellowship, named in honor of Lawrence G. Crahan, ’77. She worked as a judicial intern for the Hon. Mary Rhodes Russell, ’83, at the Supreme Court of Missouri, and the Hon. Philip M. Hess, ’83, at the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District. After graduation, she will return to Judge Russell’s chambers for a two-year clerkship at the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Last year, Williams was a top ten oral advocate in the 1L Moot Court Competition and a finalist in the Mediation Competition. Last semester, she completed a judicial externship with the Hon. Nanette K. Laughrey, ’75, at the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. She currently serves as a teaching assistant for Legal Research & Writing and Advocacy & Research for Professor Brad Desnoyer, ’09.

Williams served as an associate member of the Missouri Law Review, and her case note on the right to bear arms in Missouri was selected for publication and received the Guy A. Thompson Award for best student note. In the next academic year, she will serve as editor-in-chief of the law review.

This summer, Williams will work as a summer associate at Polsinelli in Kansas City. She is honored to be this year’s recipient of the Judge L.F. Cottey Advocacy Award.

Judge L.F. Cottey served the people of Missouri in the profession of law from his graduation from the School of Law in 1931 to 1979, when he retired after serving 17 years as a circuit judge of the First Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri.

Judge Cottey was a contributor to state bar educational publications and was a panelist at legal seminars. He regularly held moot court for the students of the School of Law. He was a speaker at district bar meetings across the northern half of Missouri and in 1980 delivered the commencement address at the School of Law hooding ceremony.

Judge Cottey was a dedicated professional with broad knowledge and skills in all areas of the law. He was recognized particularly by his peers as possessing a flair for written and oral advocacy. The judge felt that this acquired talent was enhanced by a comprehensive working knowledge of fine writing and history.

The family and friends of Judge Cottey established an endowment to fund this award in his honor. It is designed to promote excellence in written and oral advocacy.

JUDGE L.F. COTTEY ADVOCACY AWARD

ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, 2L

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RAFAEL GELY is the director of the law school’s nationally-recognized Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution and the James E. Campbell Missouri Endowed Professor of Law. He earned his J.D. and Ph.D. in labor and industrial relations at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. He has published in nationally- and internationally-recognized academic journals, including the Rand Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, the Texas Law Review and the Southern California Law Review.

At the School of Law, Gely has taught a variety of courses including Employment Law, Labor Law, Lawyering, and Workers’ Compensation Law and Practice, among others. In the classroom, he seeks to provide students with opportunities to learn the materials in a variety of different ways.

In Labor Law, for example, he teaches the course as a simulation. In the simulation, students are “employees” and the professor is the “employer.” Students receive an “employee handbook” (syllabus) which includes the terms and conditions of employment, and are told that those terms will govern the class unless they form a union, negotiate alternative terms or initiate mock causes of action to challenge any terms that violate relevant law.

In Workers’ Compensation, Gely has partnered with Melodie A. Powell, ’81, a practicing attorney in this field, to provide students not only with the opportunity to learn the law of workers’ compensation, but also to apply that knowledge by practicing how to interview a client, take a medical deposition and participate in a mediation before an administrative law judge.

This award was established in 1980 by alumni and friends in the Kansas City firm bearing its name and is presented each year to the full-time faculty member who, during the preceding 12 months, established a record of distinguished achievement in teaching. The recipient of this award is selected by the dean upon advice and recommendation of the Missouri Law Review editorial board.

HUSCH BLACKWELL DISTINGUISHED FACULTY AWARD

PROFESSOR RAFAEL GELY

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SHOOK, HARDY & BACON LLP EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH AWARD

PROFESSOR S.I. STRONG

This award was established in 1993 by alumni and friends in the Kansas City firm bearing its name and is presented each year to the full-time faculty member who demonstrates excellence in research based on a published article from the preceding year. The recipient of the award is selected by the dean upon the advice and recommendation of a committee consisting of School of Law faculty and members of the firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP.

S.I. STRONG is the Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law. She specializes in international dispute resolution and comparative law, with an emphasis on international commercial arbitration and large-scale (class and collective) suits. She has taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom and is an experienced practitioner, having acted as counsel at Baker & McKenzie after working as a dual-qualified lawyer (U.S. attorney and English solicitor) for Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York and London.

Strong has published more than 100 award-winning books and articles, including Arbitration of Trust Disputes: Issues in National and International Law (2016), Class, Mass, and Collective Arbitration in National and International Law (2013) and Research and Practice in International Commercial Arbitration: Sources and Strategies (2009) from Oxford University Press, as well as the bilingual Comparative Law for Spanish-English Speaking Lawyers: Legal Cultures, Legal Terms and Legal Practices / Derecho comparado para abogados anglo- e hispanoparlantes: Culturas jurídicas, términos jurídicos y prácticas jurídicas from Edward Elgar Publishing (lead author, with Katia Fach Gómez and Laura Carballo Piñeiro) and International Commercial Arbitration: A Guide for U.S. Judges (2012) from the Federal Judicial Center.

The article that is being honored today, “Mass Torts and Arbitration: Lessons From Abaclat v. Argentine Republic,” in Uncertain Causation in Tort Law 250 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), applies lessons learned from the world of international investment arbitration to consider whether and to what extent arbitration might be used in cases involving mass torts.

Strong regrets not being able to accept the award in person, but she is on research leave this term. During her leave, she has spent several weeks as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Law in Germany, and has given presentations in Belgium, Spain and Germany. She thanks Shook, Hardy & Bacon and the members of the selection committee for this honor.

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LOYD E. ROBERTS MEMORIAL PRIZE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

PROFESSOR WILSON FREYERMUTH

This prize was established in 1979 by the family and friends of Loyd E. Roberts to honor the MU law professor or student who has made the most significant contribution to improving the administration of justice, either within Missouri, nationally or internationally, during the preceding year.

WILSON FREYERMUTH is the John D. Lawson Professor of Law and a Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor. He joined the law school in 1992 and teaches Property, Real Estate Finance, Real Estate Transactions, Real Estate Leasing and Secured Transactions.

Freyermuth is committed to service. Within the profession, he has served since 2010 in leadership positions with the Legal Education and Uniform Laws Group of the American Bar Association Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section, most recently as group chair. In this role, he is the founder, principal organizer and recurring moderator of the “Professors’ Corner,” a national webinar program featuring law professors speaking on topics of recent interest in the fields of real estate or trusts and estates.

Freyermuth serves actively in national law reform efforts. Most recently, he served as the Reporter of the Uniform Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act, promulgated by the Uniform Law Commission in 2015, and speaks and testifies around the country in support of its enactment in the states. Since 2005, he has served as the executive director of the Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Real Property Acts, and in that role has also served as Reporter for recent amendments to the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act. He is an elected Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.

At the law school, Freyermuth serves as chair of the Admissions Committee, on the Policy Committee and as advisor to the Real Estate Law Society. For MU, he serves as chair of the Faculty Tenure Committee, which addresses cases involving revocation of tenure, and as chair of an ad hoc committee on shared governance appointed by the MU Faculty Council that is working to prepare a statement of best practices of shared institutional governance for chairs and deans. He is also a member of The Law Society.

Freyermuth is married to Shari, who is an associate teaching professor in the MU Department of Biochemistry and assistant dean for academic programs in the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. They have two children, Jacob (22) and Sarah (20).

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Order of the CoifMISSOURI CHAPTEROrganized May 23, 1906

OPEN MEETING AND INITIATION

CALL TO ORDERAssociate Dean S. David Mitchell

INITIATION OF 2016 STUDENT MEMBERSAssociate Dean S. David Mitchell

STUDENT INITIATES 2016Travis Aaron Braun

Richard C. ByrdJohn A. Clizer

Ross H. FreemanNicholas Allan Griebel

Jared Timothy GuemmerPaul T. Jacobson

Angela Belle KennedyJulia Elizabeth NeidhardtSuzanne Louise SpeckerRobert Alec Wasserman

Edward J. Wittrig

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ORDER OF THE COIF HONORARY INITIATE

MARYMICHAEL STERCHI, ’82presented by Megan Sterchi Lammert, ’15

MARYMICHAEL STERCHI, ’82, been a trial lawyer for nearly 35 years. She began her litigation career with the Woolsey, Fisher firm in Springfield, Mo., and then practiced with the Baker, Sterchi firm in Kansas City, Mo., becoming their first woman partner in 1988.

With Baker, Sterchi, Cowden & Rice, LLC, Sterchi focused on defending doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and other product manufacturers including defense in the Toxic Shock & DES litigation. In 1992, she formed her own law practice and has focused on representing small businesses and individuals. From 2004 to 2010, she consulted with Baker, Sterchi on the hormone replacement therapy litigation in one of the first major e-discovery projects in federal court. Sterchi is a member of The Missouri Bar, the Kansas Bar and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.

In 1979, Sterchi graduated from Missouri State University with a B.S. in communications/business. During law school, she was awarded the Fred Howard Appellate Advocacy Award and with her appellate partner, J. Earlene Gordon, ’82, won the MU National Moot Court Tournament and the National Appellate Advocacy Competition. She was inducted into the Order of Barristers and served as judging director of the Board of Advocates and as an officer of the Student Bar Association before graduating in 1982.

In addition to her trial practice, Sterchi has continued to serve the law school as a board member of the Law School Foundation, currently as first vice-president and president-elect. In 2006, she and her husband, Thomas N. Sterchi ’70, established the Sterchi-Ryan-Kelly Scholarship Fund at the law school. Her other honors and community service include: chair of the Volunteer Council for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, chair of the Kansas City Junior Tennis League, math and reading tutor at Franklin, Faxon and Garcia Elementary Schools and chair of the Front Porch Alliance in the Ivanhoe Neighborhood in Kansas City, Mo.

Sterchi and her husband live in the Kansas City, Mo., area and have three daughters, one son, one daughter-in-law, two sons-in-law and four beautiful and brilliant grandchildren – Ty, Sidney, Luke and Chase.

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Order of BarristersMISSOURI CHAPTEROrganized April 10, 1979

OPEN MEETING AND INITIATION

INTRODUCTION AND RECOGNITION OF BARRISTERSProfessor Chuck Henson and Professor Brad Desnoyer, ’09

INITIATION OF 2017 STUDENT MEMBERSProfessor Chuck Henson and Professor Brad Desnoyer, ’09

STUDENT INITIATES 2017Maikieta A. Brantley

Joseph E. DumasSheaffer K. Fennessey

Miles FiggTamar Hodges

Jenna E. HomeyerAlex Langley

Courtney LauerTheresa M. Mullineaux

Aaron Snipes

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MORRY S. COLE, ’97, handles complex litigation. He has served as lead trial and appellate counsel in a wide variety of complicated cases in state and federal courts throughout Missouri and the Midwest.

Cole received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Baylor University, specializing in finance. While in law school, he served as an editor of the Missouri Law Review, a research assistant for Professor Martha Dragich and an intern to former Missouri Supreme Court judge (now 8th Circuit Court of Appeals) Duane Benton. Before joining Gray, Ritter & Graham in St. Louis, he worked for the Supreme Court of Missouri as law clerk and research attorney for Missouri Supreme Court Judge Edward D. Robertson Jr.

Cole has written articles for the Missouri Law Review and the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys. He has published articles and continuing legal education materials relating to wrongful death cases in the Journal of The Missouri Bar and the Missouri Bar CLE Black Book on Damages in Civil Cases. He has lectured for the University of Missouri, The Missouri Bar, the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys and many civic and scholastic organizations. He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Pre-Trial Litigation and Settlement at the Washington University School of Law since 2008.

Cole has served the profession of law extensively. He is the 2016-2017 president-elect of The Missouri Bar, a current member of The Missouri Bar Board of Governors, and a member of the School of Law’s Law Society and the University of Missouri Jefferson Club. Previously he served as the state-wide chairperson of The Missouri Bar YLS Council, a member of the board of governors of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, a member of the Theodore MacMillian Inn of Court and a trustee of the University of Missouri Law School Foundation.

Cole is a 2016 recipient of The Missouri Bar’s President’s Award. In 2003, he received The Missouri Bar Foundation’s Lon O. Hocker Award for “outstanding expression to the qualities of professional competence, industry, integrity and courtesy indicative of an able trial lawyer.” In 2005, he was presented with The Missouri Bar Foundation’s David J. Dixon Appellate Advocacy Award for “outstanding achievement in appellate practice.” Cole was also named the 2006 recipient of the St. Louis County Bar Association’s Roy F. Essen Outstanding Young Lawyer Award, given annually for excellence as a lawyer, distinguished service to the bar and outstanding service to the community.

THE ORDER OF BARRISTERS HONORARY INITIATE

MORRY S. COLE, ’97presented by Rodney E. Loomer, ’74

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Law School FoundationANNUAL MEETING AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS

PRESIDINGStephen L. Hill Jr., ’86

PRESIDENTStephen L. Hill Jr., ’86

FIRST VICE PRESIDENTMaryMichael Sterchi, ’82

SECOND VICE PRESIDENTGlen A. Glass, ’71

SECRETARY/TREASURERKenneth D. Dean, ’76

Jack L. Campbell, ’70Joyce M. Capshaw, ’82

William M. Corrigan Jr., ’85John W. Cowden, ’70Karen M. Jordan, ’00

Mark T. Kempton, ’76Rodney E. Loomer, ’74

W. Dudley McCarter, ’75Gayle Grissum Stratmann, ’87

Brian C. Underwood, ’78Craig A. Van Matre, ’70Michael A. Williams, ’98

INTERIM DEAN AND EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEEKenneth D. Dean, ’76

PREVIOUS LAW DAY ALUMNI & FACULTY AWARD RECIPIENTS

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1953 William Kemp*1954 Judge Lyon Anderson*1955 Judge Roy Harper*1956 Osbert Watkins*1957 Judge Waldo Edwards* George Moore1958 Judge Lue C. Lozier* Gov. Forest Donnell1959 Judge Paul Van Osdol* Judge Laurance Hyde1960 Judge S. P. Dalton* Judge Cullen Coil1961 Delos Johns1962 Richmond C. Coburn* J. W. McAfee1963 Judge Roy Harper1964 Boyd Ewing* Rush Limbaugh1965 Samuel H. Liberman* Ilus Davis1966 Paul G. Koontz* Irvin Fane1967 Edgar Shook* James A. Potter1968 Clarence O. Woolsey* John H. Hendren Jr.1969 Judge Robert G. Brady* Flavius B. Freeman1970 Russell Casteel* Judge James A. Finch Jr.1971 Sen. Albert M. Spradling* A. D. Sappington1972 Roy P. Swanson* Henry P. Andrae1973 Judge Frank L. Cottey* Robert L. Howard1974 Robert L. Hawkins Jr.* Ike Skelton Jr.

1975 D. Jeff Lance* Judge Floyd R. Gibson1976 C. Wallace Walter Paul Van Osdol Jr.1977 Lynn M. Ewing Jr.* Judge Marshall Craig1978 Judge J. P. Morgan Judge Ninian M. Edwards1979 Thomas E. Deacy Jr. Judge Fred E. Schoenlaub1980 Judge Warren D. Welliver Mortimer A. Rosecan1981 Edward R. Jayne Donald Chisholm1982 Judge Robert T. Donnelly Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh1983 Jerome W. Siegfried Donald L. Wolff1984 John Fox Arnold Bob F. Griffin1985 Charles E. Dapron Fred L. Hall Jr.1986 Judge William H. Billings W. Edgar Mayfield1987 Robert M. Clayton II Colonel Paul J. Rice1988 Maurice B. Graham John David Collins1989 John K. Hulston Robert B. Paden1990 Robert C. Smith John P. Lichtenegger1991 David K. Hardy Kenneth H. Suelthaus1992 James D. Ellis Webb R. Gilmore1993 Judge Ann K. Covington W. Dudley McCarter

CITATION OF MERIT


*Distinguished Alumni Award (Prior to 1977 some Citation of Merit Awards were listed as Distinguished Alumni Awards on some programs. Since 1977 the award has been called Citation of Merit Award.)

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1994 Governor Mel Carnahan Judge John R. Gibson1995 Jeremiah W. “Jay” Nixon Keith A. Birkes1996 Judge Patricia A. Breckenridge Judge Elmo B. Hunter1997 Theodore C. Beckett Judge Mary Rhodes Russell1998 Steve Gaw Larry McMullen1999 Judge Nanette K.Laughrey Senator Harold L. Caskey2000 George E. Ashley Claire C. McCaskill2001 Judge Lawrence G. Crahan Nancy L. Shelledy2002 Kenneth D. Dean C. Patrick McLarney2003 Sam F. Hamra Randa Rawlins2004 Michael A. Middleton Steven C. Parrish

2005 William M. Corrigan Jr. Suzanne R. Gladney Governor Ted R. Kulongoski2006 Stephen F. Hanlon Alfred C. Sikes II2007 Judge Harold L. “Hal” Lowenstein Judge Ellen S. Roper2008 Roger C. Geary Janet M. Thompson2009 Ronald A. Norwood Harold A. “Skip” Walther2010 Professor Kimberly Jade Norwood Ronald E. Smull Craig A. Van Matre2011 Don M. Downing Edith D. Wright2012 Justice Douglas S. Lang Judge M. Elizabeth “Beth” Phillips2014 William S. Ohlemeyer Judge E. Richard Webber2015 Christopher T. Cox Cathy J. Dean2016 Dale C. Doerhoff Justice Elizabeth Lang Miers

1989 Daniel J. Godar1990 Daniel L. Scott1991 Jean Paul Bradshaw II1992 Richard N. Bien1993 William M. Corrigan Jr.1994 Stephen L. Hill Jr.1995 Teresa J. Stewart1996 W. Edward Reeves1997 Gayle Grissum Stratmann1998 Joseph E. Maxwell1999 Annie Billings2000 Valencia J. Broadus2001 David M. Israelite2002 Heidi C. Doerhoff


DISTINGUISHED RECENT GRADUATE AWARD

2003 Jack L. Oliver2004 Tyrone J. Flowers2005 Terry M. Jarrett2006 Dutro E. “Bruce” Campbell2007 Morry S. Cole2008 Michael A. Williams2009 Bryan T. Pratt2010 Jason C. Grill2011 Omar D. Davis2012 Matthew L. Dameron2014 Cortney E. Mendenhall2015 Jennifer K. Bukowsky R. Adam Vickery2016 John C. Ayres

CITATION OF MERIT CONTINUED


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2005 William M. Corrigan Jr. Suzanne R. Gladney Governor Ted R. Kulongoski2006 Stephen F. Hanlon Alfred C. Sikes II2007 Judge Harold L. “Hal” Lowenstein Judge Ellen S. Roper2008 Roger C. Geary Janet M. Thompson2009 Ronald A. Norwood Harold A. “Skip” Walther2010 Professor Kimberly Jade Norwood Ronald E. Smull Craig A. Van Matre2011 Don M. Downing Edith D. Wright2012 Justice Douglas S. Lang Judge M. Elizabeth “Beth” Phillips2014 William S. Ohlemeyer Judge E. Richard Webber2015 Christopher T. Cox Cathy J. Dean2016 Dale C. Doerhoff Justice Elizabeth Lang Miers


1953 Charles Mayer1954 Frank Ashemeyer1955 Ethen Shepley1956 Judge Rubey Hulen1957 Lon Hocker1958 Gov. James T. Blair Jr.1959 Gov. Phil M. Donnelly1960 Thomas F. McDonald1962 Gen. Charles L. Decker1964 Judge Clem F. Storkman1965 Judge Orville Richardson1966 Judge James M. Douglas1967 Judge Paul Barrett1968 Judge Paul A. Buzard1969 William H. Pittman1970 Robert F. Neill Jr.1971 Judge M. C. Mathes1972 Loyd E. Roberts1973 William M. Stapleton1974 Judge John M. Cave1975 Wade Baker1976 John Hall Dalton1977 Willard L. Eckhardt1978 Menefee D. Blackwell1979 Judge John E. Bardgett1980 Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton1981 Joe E. Covington1982 Daniel L. Brenner1983 William F. Fratcher1984 William “Bert” Bates1985 Mary McCleary Posner

1986 Judge Andrew J. Higgins1987 James E. Hullverson1988 Dale A. Whitman1989 Elwood L. Thomas1990 Judge Charles Blackmar1991 Grant S. Nelson1992 Judge Edward Robertson Jr.1993 Linda S. Legg1994 Judge Duane Benton1995 Justice Harry A. Blackmun1996 Judge William Ray Price Jr.1997 Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr.1998 Florene B. Fratcher1999 Judge Theodore McMillian2000 Hugh E. Stephenson Jr.2001 Congressman Kenny C. Hulshof2002 Judge Ronnie L. White2003 E. Thomas Sullivan2004 Professor Timothy J. Heinsz2005 Judge Richard B. Teitelman2006 Judge Laura Denvir Stith2007 Judge Michael A. Wolff2008 Judge Wayne D. Brazil2009 Lori J. Levine2010 Professor James R. Devine2011 James R. Layton2012 Professor Edward H. Hunvald Jr.2014 Stephen J. Owens2015 Judge Zel M. Fischer2016 Kenneth B. McClain

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD

2015 Michael K. Hamra

DISTINGUISHED NON-ALUMNUS AWARD


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JUDGE L.F. COTTEY ADVOCACY AWARD

1992 James Berger1993 Mark Kroeker1994 Todd Amrein1995 Karl DeMarce1996 Heather Reinsch1997 Scott Nutter1998 Ginger K. Gooch1999 Michele L. Hornish2000 Michael F. Jones2001 Jamie J. Lee2002 Nicole Hininger2003 Kerry F. Schonwald

2004 Jon W. Jordan2005 Joshua C. Devine2006 Jennifer K. Turner2007 Sarah J. Garber2008 Carrie B. Williamson2009 Allison Elaine Singh2010 Daniel W. Graves2011 C. Curtis Shank2012 Brian J. Stair2014 Kirsten F. Dunham2015 Kayla A. Meine2016 Ellen Henrion

HUSCH BLACKWELL DISTINGUISHED FACULTY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

1981 Henry T. Lowe 1982 William H. Henning1983 William B. Fisch1984 Alfred S. Neely IV1985 Peter J. Wiedenbeck1986 Edward H. Hunvald Jr.1987 Timothy J. Heinsz1988 Peter J. Wiedenbeck1989 Nanette K. Laughrey1990 James E. Westbrook1991 Michelle A. Arnopol1992 William H. Henning1993 Edward H. Hunvald Jr.1994 Douglas E. Abrams1995 Carl H. Esbeck1996 Jerome M. Organ1997 William H. Henning1998 Robert J. Pushaw Jr.

1999 Chris Guthrie2000 David M. English2001 Robert H. Jerry, II2002 Rodney J. Uphoff 2003 Melody A. Richardson Daily2004 Jennifer K. Robbennolt2005 R. Wilson Freyermuth2006 Dale A. Whitman2007 Thomas A. Lambert2008 Christina E. Wells2009 Rodney J. Uphoff2010 Carl H. Esbeck2011 Paul J. Litton2012 Frank O. Bowman III2014 Michelle Arnopol Cecil2015 Ben Trachtenberg2016 Erin Morrow Hawley

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SHOOK, HARDY & BACON LLP EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH AWARD

1993 Philip G. Peters Jr.1994 R. Wilson Freyermuth1995 Philip G. Peters Jr.1996 Robert J. Pushaw Jr.1997 Philip G. Peters Jr.1998 Chris Guthrie1999 Carl H. Esbeck2000 Robert J. Pushaw Jr. Grant S. Nelson2001 Jean R. Sternlight2002 Jennifer K. Robbennolt2003 Stephen D. Easton2004 Michelle Arnopol Cecil Jennifer K. Robbennolt

2005 Christina E. Wells2006 Frank O. Bowman III Amy B. Monahan2007 Thomas A. Lambert2008 Philip G. Peters Jr.2009 Paul J. Litton Christina E. Wells2010 Frank O. Bowman III2011 Thomas A. Lambert R. Wilson Freyermuth2012 Carl H. Esbeck2014 Paul J. Litton S.I. Strong2015 Martha J. Dragich2016 Carli N. Conklin

LOYD E. ROBERTS MEMORIAL PRIZE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

1981 Edward H. Hunvald Jr.1982 William F. Fratcher1983 William A. Knox1984 James R. Devine1985 James E. Westbrook 1986 Kenneth D. Dean1987 Nanette K. Laughrey1988 Richard B. Tyler1989 Leonard Riskin1990 Kenneth D. Dean1991 James E. Westbrook1992 Carl H. Esbeck1993 Jerome M. Organ1994 William H. Henning1995 Edward H. Hunvald Jr.1996 Douglas E. Abrams1997 Leonard L. Riskin1998 William B. Fisch

1999 Mary M. Beck2000 Robert M. Lawless2001 Timothy J. Heinsz2002 David M. English2003 Patricia Brumfield Fry2004 R. Wilson Freyermuth2005 Dale A. Whitman2006 David A. Fischer2007 Kandice K. Johnson2008 Robert G. Bailey2009 Richard C. Reuben2010 Melody Richardson Daily2011 Greg Scott2012 Mary M. Beck2014 Carl H. Esbeck2015 Philip G. Peters Jr.2016 Michelle Arnopol Cecil


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ORDER OF COIF HONORARY INITIATES

1916 J. Lionberger Davis1917 W. W. Graves1928 Henry Upson Sims1929 William T. Ragland1930 Fred L. Williams1931 Kimbrough Stone1932 Guy A. Thompson1933 Earl F. Nelson1934 Frank E. Atwood1935 Edward J. White1936 Cyrus Crane1937 Boyle G. Clark1938 Laurance M. Hyde1939 C. H. Skinker1940 Kenneth Teasdale1941 Allen McReynolds1942 Robert B. Caldwell1943 Hugo L. Black1946 Albert M. Clark1947 Ransom A. Brewer1948 Rush H. Limbaugh1949 John Caskie Collet1950 W. Wallace Fry1951 Frank C. Mann1952 Richmond C. Coburn1953 Phil M. Donnelly1954 Albert L. Reeves1955 Frank Hollingsworth1956 William E. Kemp 1957 Thomas C. Hennings1958 Roy W. Harper1959 Allen L. Oliver1960 C. A. Leedy Jr.1961 David R. Hardy1962 John M. Dalton1963 Henry J. Westhues 1964 Arthur Mag 1965 Henry I. Eager

1966 Warren E. Hearnes1967 Norwin D. Houser1968 D. Jeff Lance1969 Warren D. Welliver1970 Lawrence Holman1971 Ilus W. Davis1972 Lowell L. Knipmeyer1973 Thomas F. Eagleton1974 James H. Meredith1975 Robert T. Donnelly1976 Cullen Coil1977 John Hall Dalton1978 Robert A. Dempster1979 Floyd R. Gibson1980 C. Wallace Walter1981 John C. Danforth1982 J. P. Morgan1983 Donald H. Chisholm1984 John K. Hulston1985 Charles L. Bacon1986 Bob F. Griffin1987 Scott O. Wright1988 William T. Session1989 Fred L. Hall1990 Ann K. Covington1991 Karen M. See1992 Darwin A. Hindman Jr.1993 John C. Holstein1994 Herbert Wolkowitz1995 Frank W. Koger1996 E. Richard Webber1997 Ike Skelton1998 Richard L. Wieler1999 Anne W. Elsberry2000 Bill Thompson2001 Gustav J. Lehr2002 M. Sean McGinnis2003 Nancy E. Kenner

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1979 Jack O. Edwards1980 Judge Robert T. Donnelly1981 Richmond Coburn1982 Thomas E. Deacy Jr.1983 Thomas Strong1984 Nicholas M. Monaco1985 Raymond C. Lewis Jr. 1986 Judge Ronald L. Somerville 1987 Larry L. McMullen1988 John M. Kilroy1989 John R. Phillips1990 Mortimer A. Rosecan1991 David L. Knight1992 Rebecca McDowell Cook 1993 C. Patrick McLarney1994 Gretchen Godar Myers1995 Thomas R. Oswald Jr.1996 Dale C. Doerhoff1997 John (Jack) R. Musgrave

ORDER OF BARRISTERS HONORARY INITIATES

1998 Thomas L. Patten1999 Robert L. Langdon2000 Walter D. McQuie2001 Gary A. Tatlow2002 William S. Ohlemeyer2003 Robert E. Northrip2004 Mark T. Kempton2005 Rodney E. Loomer2006 John W. Cowden2007 Joyce M. Capshaw2008 James C. Morrow2009 Walter H. Bley Jr.2010 Susan Ford Robertson2011 W. Hampton Ford Jr.2012 Jan Robey Alonzo2014 Jodie Capshaw Asel2015 Michelle R. Mangrum2016 Harvey L. Kaplan

ORDER OF COIF HONORARY INITIATES CONTINUED

2004 Deborah Daniels2005 Anita R. Estell2006 Cathy J. Dean2007 H. Morley Swingle2008 Rachel L. Bringer2009 Joyce M. Poehlman Otten

2010 Jack L. Campbell2011 Mary E. Nelson2012 David L. Forbes2014 Michael E. Melton2016 Jacqueline K. Hamra Mesa


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