The POWER List: Charles A. Redd

Stinson, St. Louis

Clary Redd has shaped the language of two Missouri laws on estate planning.

He was the principal author who drove the Missouri Family Trust Act’s enactment. While chairing The Missouri Bar’s health care durable power of attorney subcommittee, he led the drafting and enactment of the Missouri Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care Act.

Redd was inducted into Stinson’s Estate Planning Hall of Fame in 2018. At that point, he had honed his estate planning practice for 35 years.

He has extensive experience in cases involving taxes, trusts and estates, including estate and gift taxes, will and trust construction, and marital agreements.

Redd was an adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law for 15 years. He also lectures nationally on estate planning, including his role as lead presenter in Cannon Financial Institute’s estate planning conference series.

Before joining Stinson, where he is now a partner, he was a partner in his field at two large law firms and a trust administrator of today’s U.S. Bank in Milwaukee and assistant counsel at what is now Bank of America. He earned his law degree from Saint Louis University in 1979.