Photos: 2022 Missouri Bar annual meeting

Jennifer Matthew Crompton and Erica Mynarich nominate Shelly Dreyer as vice president of The Missouri Bar at the Sept. 14, 2022 Board of Governors meeting with their rendition of Brittney Spears’ “Baby One More Time." “Oh Shelly, Shelly, we really want you to know,” they sang, highlighting that Dreyer is one of three women who will lead the bar in the next few years. “Oh Shelly, Shelly, ready for three in a rooooow.” (Photo by Scott Lauck)

Outgoing bar president John Grimm puts on his glasses during The Missouri Bar Board of Governors meeting on Sept. 14, 2022. Lauren Tucker McCubbin succeeded Grimm, who now serves as the organization’s immediate past president. (Photo by Scott Lauck)

Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul C. Wilson addresses members of The Missouri Bar on Sept. 15, 2022 during its annual meeting in Springfield. (Photo by Scott Lauck)

Board member Jason Paulsmeyer formally nominates Lauren Tucker McCubbin as president of The Missouri Bar during the Board of Governors meeting on Sept. 14, 2022. Tucker McCubbin is the daughter of Larry Tucker, seen in the photograph on the screen, who served as president from 1995 to 1996. They are the first father-daughter pair to lead the bar. (Photo by Scott Lauck)

Shelly Dreyer laughs as she is nominated to be vice president of The Missouri Bar at the Sept. 14, 2022 Board of Governors meeting. She is set to become president of the organization in 2024. (Photo by Scott Lauck)

Lauren Tucker McCubbin addresses members of The Missouri Bar on Sept. 15, 2022 during its annual meeting in Springfield. (Photo by Scott Lauck)

Lauren Tucker McCubbin, newly installed as president of The Missouri Bar, gives an award to outgoing president John Grimm on Sept. 15, 2022 during its annual meeting in Springfield. (Photo by Scott Lauck)

Lauren Tucker McCubbin, the newly installed president of The Missouri Bar, embraces outgoing president John Grimm on Sept. 15, 2022 during the bar’s annual meeting in Springfield. (Photo by Scott Lauck)

Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul C. Wilson addresses members of The Missouri Bar on Sept. 15, 2022 during its annual meeting in Springfield. He warned of the dangers the German legal profession faced in the 1930s when it bowed to popular will. “It took a decade and tens of millions of lives to pick up the pieces when an independent judiciary stopped being independent and stopped being judicial,” he said. (Photo by Scott Lauck)

Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul C. Wilson addresses members of The Missouri Bar on Sept. 15, 2022 during its annual meeting in Springfield. (Photo by Scott Lauck)

Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul C. Wilson addresses members of The Missouri Bar on Sept. 15, 2022 during its annual meeting in Springfield. Wilson asked the audience to raise their hands if they knew a lawyer struggling with addiction or mental health problems. “If you think the water is rising, if sometimes you feel like you can’t touch the bottom even standing on your tippy toes, you’re not wrong,” he said. (Photo by Scott Lauck)

Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul C. Wilson addresses members of The Missouri Bar on Sept. 15, 2022 during its annual meeting in Springfield. He warned of waning public confidence in the rule of law. “Right now, we’re balanced on a knife’s edge and there is a real risk the public’s trust, its confidence, will slip away,” he said. (Photo by Scott Lauck)

Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul C. Wilson addresses members of The Missouri Bar on Sept. 15, 2022 during its annual meeting in Springfield. He urged lawyers to push back against public figures who lie to gain popularity. “When a bully pushes you, you have to push back,” he said. (Photo by Scott Lauck)