The POWER List: Anne Sallee Mason
Staff Report//April 25, 2022//
Neale & Newman, Springfield

Mason first joined Neale & Newman in 1989. She had spent two years clerking at the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District for Judge Douglas W. Greene after earning her law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She worked her way up to partner at Neale & Newman in 1994.
She left the firm two years later to serve as trust officer and in-house counsel for Mercantile Trust Company in 1996. From 1998 to 2000, she chaired the probate and trust committee of the Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association.
She then moved on to The Commerce Trust Company in 1999 as a trust counsel and trust officer.
In 2003, she returned to Neale & Newman as of counsel. She is a member of the American Bar Association’s real property, probate and trust law section and the Greene County Estate Planning Council.
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