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ICON Honors 2023: Honorees
This annual Missouri Lawyers Media celebration honors career achievement by recognizing lawyers for their exceptional and lengthy contributions to the profession and community — those who personify the ideals of what it means to be an attorney.
ICON Honors 2023: William G. Beck, Lathrop GPM
Bill Beck’s career has resembled a series of building blocks, culminating in a body of work that will impact people for decades to come.
ICON Honors 2023: Paul L. Wickens, Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice
“I grew up in Hannibal and caddied for attorneys at the local golf course,” says Paul Wickens.
ICON Honors 2023: Charles T. Wetzler, Lathrop GPM, Ronald D. Deffenbaugh Foundation
“I remember having long discussions about law as a career with a retired judge in my hometown,” says Charles Wetzler.
ICON Honors 2023: Lynn Ann Whaley Vogel, Vogel Law Office, MORE
“Getting to know people outside of the courtroom is beneficial when you’re together in the courtroom,” says Lynn Ann Vogel.
ICON Honors 2023: Sarah Brown, Brown & Curry
Sarah Brown discovered her love for the law when she began working directly with victims of sexual abuse and harassment at work, church, and school.
ICON Honors 2023: Ronald K. Fisher, Harris Dowell Fisher & Young
As an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Wisconsin, Ron Fisher struggled to find his way.
ICON Honors 2023: Roy L. Richter, Ozark, Missouri
“As a judge, Roy Richter worked daily to improve our judicial system with his common-sense demeanor,” says Richter’s nominator for this award.
ICON Honors 2023: G. William Quatman, FAIA, FDBIA, Quatman ADR, LLC
In his final year of the architectural program at the University of Kansas, Bill Quatman took a business law course.
ICON Honors 2023: Perry Brandt, Sanberg Phoenix & von Gontard
Perry Brandt is a self-described “people person,” who enjoys calling friends, colleagues and clients, just to check in.
ICON Honors 2023: C. Robert “Bob” Monroe, Stinson LLP
Peers describe Bob Monroe as the “number-one guy in Kansas City,” and Chambers USA states that “there is nobody better on banking in this region, from Chicago to Dallas.”
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