Missouri Lawyers Media to award 25 ICONs in 2024

Missouri Lawyers Media will honor the impressively long and distinguished careers of 25 attorneys and judges at the 2024 ICON Awards.

These awards, now in their seventh year, are given to members of the Missouri legal community aged 60 and older in recognition of their exemplary careers and longstanding commitment to the profession. Whether active or retired, honorees must hold or have held a senior position with significant decision-making authority for their firm or organization.

The list of 2024 honorees includes state and federal judges, founding partners, firm leaders and long-serving practitioners at firms big and small. Missouri Lawyers Media will hold the ICON Awards luncheon from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 13 at our headquarters at the Maritz campus, 1400 S. Highway Drive, in Fenton.

Honorees also will be profiled online and in the June issue of Missouri Lawyers Weekly.

The 2024 honorees are:

Jeffrey Bates, Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District

Ann Bauer, The Center for Family Law

William Buckley, Lashly & Baer

Ian Cooper, Tueth Keeney Cooper Mohan Jackstadt

Jon Dalton, Armstrong Teasdale/AT Government Strategies

E. Sid Douglas III, Gilmore Bell

Audrey Fleissig, Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

David Frantze, Stinson

Karen Halbrook, Halbrook Wood

Mark P. Johnson, Dentons

Stephen Meyerkord, Meyerkord & Kurth

Christine Miller, Husch Blackwell

Jim Griffin, Scharnhorst Ast Kennard Griffin

John Mullen, Franke Schultz & Mullen

Michael Mulligan, Lewis Rice

Jay Nathanson, UB Greensfelder

Gerard Noce, Reichardt, Noce & Young

Joel Poole, University of Missouri System, Office of the General Counsel

Kirk Presley, Presley & Presley

Fred Ricks, Harris Dowell Fisher & Young

Jerry Riffel, Lathrop GPM

Gary Robb, Robb & Robb

Scott Seitter, The Levy Craig Law Firm

Karen Tokarz, Washington University School of Law

Thomas Weaver, Armstrong Teasdale