ICON Honors 2024 profiles
Staff Report//June 12, 2024//
These awards, launched in 2018, 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.
2024 ICON Honorees
Jeffrey W. Bates, Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals Southern District
Ann Bauer, The Center for Family Law
William E. Buckley, Lashly & Baer
Ian P. Cooper, Tueth Keeney Cooper Mohan Jackstadt
Jonathan F. 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
Karen J. Halbrook, Halbrook Wood
Stephen Meyerkord, Meyerkord & Kurth
Christine Miller, Husch Blackwell
Jim Griffin, Scharnhorst Ast Kennard Griffin
John Mullen, Franke Schultz & Mullen
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 Jr., Harris Dowell Fisher & Young
Scott Seitter, The Levy Craig Law Firm
Karen Tokarz, Washington University School of Law
Thomas Weaver, Armstrong Teasdale
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