Admitted
1980, Missouri and U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri; 1990, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
University of Missouri-Columbia, J.D., cum laude, 1980
Law School Graduation Year
1980
College
University of Missouri-Columbia, A.B., summa cum laude, 1976
Memberships
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (Member, Construction Law Committee); The Missouri Bar (Member, Construction Law Committee); American Bar Association (Member, Forum on the Construction Industry; Membership Committee; Steering Committee, Division 3); Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers (Vice Chair, Construction Committee).
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Order of the Coif. Member, 1978-1979, and Note and Comment Editor, 1979-1980, Missouri Law Review. Listed in 2002 Kansas City Business Journal Best of the Bar, Construction Law. Author: Products Liability v. Negligence-Verdict Inconsistency and Punitive Damages, 44 Missouri Law Review 567, 1979. Co-Author: Constitutional and Policy Justifications Supporting Statutory Limitations on Awards of Punitive Damages, 8 Adelphia Law Journal, 1992. Chapter Author, The Design/Build Guidebook, ABA 1997.