The POWER List: Kate Nolen

Lathrop GPM, Kansas City

Kate Nolen serves as co-chair Lathrop GPM’s pro bono committee, which organizes and supports the firm’s pro bono services.

Prior to joining Lathrop in 2016, Nolen was director of legal services for Jackson County CASA, where she represented juveniles as a guardian ad litem while doubling its legal staff.

Missouri Lawyers Media has honored her multiple times. She was named as an Up & Coming Lawyer in 2013, then honored as an Up & Coming Mentor in 2019. She also earned a Women’s Justice Award in 2016.

Nolen is a recipient of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges 2021 Impact of the Year Award. She is a member of the Association of Pro Bono Counsel, was part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s Bar Leadership Academy in 2013 and has been involved both as a mentor and a mentee in the Association for Women Lawyers Foundation’s Connections program.

She earned her law degree from the University of Missouri in 2006.