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Alicia Baumhoer considers her role as associate general counsel at Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc. her dream job.

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These 20 honorees are in-house counsel at all levels who, among other things, navigate complicated contract negotiations, represent their companies in high-stakes litigation and defend some of an organization’s most important assets.

In selecting the honorees for the In-House Counsel Awards, we look not only at expertise in the legal profession, but the commitment and impact these attorneys have made within their companies.

There were parts of Carrie Wrisberg’s future which seemed clear even before law school.

“I enjoy getting to know the business and being more proactive to mitigate risks,” says Charlene Wilson.

Andy Walkup spent the first part of his career as a molecular biologist at Monsanto, which has since merged with Bayer, trying to solve problems like increasing the crop yield of cotton.

Maureen Vogel comes from a family of physicians and nurses, so while she pursued a career in law rather than medicine, when it came to decide what she wanted to focus her career in, she picked an arena that felt familiar.

Growing up, St. Louisan Eugene Tucker loved the beauty of the natural world and traveled the American West widely to see everything from Mount Rushmore to the Pacific Coast, a history which followed him to Saint Louis University Law School.

When Mayme Sloan entered Southeast Missouri State University, she planned to major in music, but then, like many people, her plans changed when she realized she needed to support herself, she said.