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Darlene Parrigon’s first foray into the legal profession came nearly a decade before she decided to become a lawyer herself. The Pierce City solo practitioner had been working at a local shoe factory — now closed — when she decided ...

Through her career of more than 35 years, Jamie Zveitel Kwiatek has become known for significant “firsts.” As a law student at the University of Colorado, she was half of the school’s first father-daughter legacy duo. Later, she became her ...

Jennifer McAdam is a team player and a team builder, whether she’s working with insurance companies on data privacy or enabling other attorneys to take pro bono cases. She is senior counsel at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a ...

For young girls who have faced abuse at the hands of a trusted authority figure, Jessica Agnelly Krawczyk is a last line of defense, or at least a patient listener. Agnelly is a partner at the Wendt Law Firm in ...

Of all of the admirable traits Jackson County Deputy County Counselor Ashley N. Garrett has shown throughout her career, perseverance has to be atop the list. In her five years with the Jackson County Counselor’s office, Garrett has tried three ...

Athena Dickson begins the conversation with an interruption. “Could you do me a favor and give me just one second so I can get my son started on another project?” she says on the phone. She is apologetic, but there ...

When Carley Johansson enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Missouri, she intended to become a doctor. Once she faced the challenges of organic chemistry, however, her career path took a different direction. Johansson switched her major to women ...

In her 30 years working for Kansas City, recently retired City Attorney Cecilia Abbott has compiled an impressive list of career highlights, not the least of which has been a persistent push to help other women succeed in the city’s ...

Danielle Atchison fights for her clients on and off the clock, serving as a business immigration attorney at Mdivani Corporate Immigration Law Firm while also working on pro bono cases for those facing struggles with immigration and domestic abuse. Atchison ...

Debbie Rush said many things have changed in the world of law since she joined what then was known as Thompson & Mitchell, but one of the best has been seeing more women in leadership roles than she did in ...

Denise Childress’ clients have an interesting, if fictional, person to thank for piquing her interest in becoming an attorney: Nancy Drew. The books featuring the teenage sleuth weren’t the only mystery series she read as a child, but the genre ...