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The POWER List 2022: Jeremiah “Jay” Nixon
Staff Report//November 28, 2022//
Dowd Bennett, Clayton
Former Gov. Jay Nixon has defended state park land with the same intensity with which he represents natural gas and wind power clients in appellate courts.
Nixon served as the 55th Governor of Missouri from 2009 to 2017. In 2017, he joined Dowd Bennett.
Nixon wrote an amicus brief on behalf of conservation groups to defend Eleven Point State Park in the Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District, which ruled in their favor. He filed a similar brief in a pending Missouri Supreme Court case determining the Missouri Conservation Commission’s authority to purchase land.
In 2018, he won a case before the state’s high court to secure regulatory permission for the Grain Belt Express Clean Line, which will carry wind-generated electricity across 780 miles through northern Missouri. He also helped a natural gas utility win state regulatory approval for infrastructure-replacement surcharges.
Nixon earned his law degree from the University of Missouri in 1981.
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