SPURGEON SMITHSON AWARDS
(Missouri Bar Foundation awards acknowledging significant contributions to the administration of justice)
Former Dean and Professor Larry Dessem
University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law
Columbia
Arthur H. Stoup
Arthur H. Stoup & Associates, P.C.
Kansas City
Hon. William Ray Price, Jr.
Armstrong Teasdale and former Missouri Supreme Court Judge
Jefferson City
W. OLIVER RASCH AWARD
(Award for the best Journal of The Missouri Bar article of the year)
Brian J. Christensen
Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP
Kansas City
David M. Kight
Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP
Kansas City
DAVID J. DIXON AWARDS
(Missouri Bar Foundation appellate advocacy awards)
Brianne N. Niemann
Boyd & Kenter, P.C.
Kansas City
Matthew M. Ward
Missouri State Public Defender's Office
Columbia
Roxanna Allen Mason
Missouri State Public Defender's Office
St. Louis
LON O. HOCKER AWARDS
(Missouri Bar Foundation trial practice awards)
Carie Marie Allen
Missouri State Public Defender's Office
Kansas City
Catherine Reade
Haden, Cowherd & Bullock
Springfield
Jamie Lynn Boock
Rossiter & Boock, LLC
St. Louis
PURCELL PROFESSIONALISM AWARD
(Missouri Bar Foundation award to acknowledge outstanding professionalism by a Missouri lawyer, who has consistently demonstrated an exceptional degree of competency, integrity and civility in both their professional and civic activities)
R. Denise Henning
The Henning Law Firm, P.C.
Kansas City