The POWER List 2022: Aimee D. Guzman Davenport

Stinson, Jefferson City

Guzman Davenport is a partner at Stinson who co-chairs the firm’s environmental practice group. Earlier this year, the firm tapped her to co-lead Stinson’s Infrastructure Task Force of 18 total attorneys.

The task force supports clients inquiring about how they can maximize opportunities from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act while complying with regulations.

Guzman Davenport joined Stinson in 2017 after founding the Columbia office of St. Louis-based Evans & Dixon. In 2018, she was appointed to the mayor’s task force on climate action in Columbia, Missouri.

In October 2022, she led the team representing City Utilities of Springfield against federal claims from Greene County’s public water supply district that it had unlawfully provided drinking water to subdivisions in the district’s territory for half a century. In October 2022, the 8^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the district relief because its claim was made beyond the statute of limitations.

Guzman Davenport previously served as deputy attorney general for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and as an attorney for the Missouri Public Service Commission advising the commissioners and chief judge on rate, tariff and complaint cases. She won a Missouri Lawyers Media Up & Coming Award in 2013.

Guzman Davenport earned her law degree from the University of Missouri in 2001.