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The attorneys we honor this year in our Women’s Justice Awards are trailblazers. Glass-ceiling breakers.

At age 16, Sandra “Sandy” Wirtel began her path to a legal career after being ticketed for failing to stop for a stop sign at the stop line.

“There is no cure for mesothelioma,” says Lauren Williams.

Whether in public service or private practice, Alexus N. Williams has continually found ways to level disparities to make the system work for everyone.

Kansas City Municipal Judge Courtney Wachal presides over a daily domestic violence docket that recently had grown to nearly 350 cases in one day, as the court continued to work through its COVID-19 backlog.

Lindsey VanFleet recalls appealing a child abuse and neglect case in which a father was determined to be the perpetrator of abuse of his own child.

Brianne Thomas juggles being a mom of four small children with the challenges of her law career.

She was the first person in her family to graduate from college.

For Jody Stockard, the path to receiving a Women’s Justice Award for public service began at the University of Missouri School of Journalism — the undergraduate alma mater for a quarter of this year’s honorees in this category.

Adapting is part of who Deme Sotiriou is — as an attorney and as a person.

Brandy Simpson is proud of making it.