Laura Denvir Stith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Laura Denvir Stith

American judge

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1953

Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Laura Denvir Stith

  • Laura Denvir Stith (born October 30, 1953) has been a judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri since 2001.
  • She was elected by her fellow Supreme Court justices to serve a two-year term as Chief Justice, from July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2009, becoming the second woman to serve as Missouri's highest-ranking jurist. Stith graduated in 1971 from John Burroughs School, a private school in metro St.
  • Louis, Missouri.
  • Four years later, she graduated magna cum laude from Jackson College for Women (now part of Tufts University), and then from Georgetown University Law Center in 1978.
  • Stith served as a law clerk for Chief Justice Robert Seiler of the Missouri Supreme Court and then entered private practice in Kansas City, Missouri.
  • She served on the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, from 1994 to 2000.
  • On March 7, 2001, then-Governor Bob Holden appointed her to the Supreme Court of Missouri, and she was retained by a vote of the people at the November 2002 election.Stith is a founding director for Lawyers Encouraging Academic Performance ("LEAP") in Kansas City, where she lives with her attorney husband, Donald Scott, and their three children.
  • Her late father, Richard T.
  • Stith, Jr.
  • (October 31, 1919 – February 10, 2013), an insurance agent and financial planner, served as mayor of Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St.
  • Louis, from 1983 to 1987.
  • He was a decorated Marine pilot during World War II.
  • Her late mother, Ann Carter Stith (November 21, 1920 – November 24, 2005), was a longtime advocate of clean government, prison reform, and educational and family support services for children.
  • Stith's brother Richard T.
  • Stith III is a law professor at Valparaiso University in Indiana.
  • Her sister Kate Stith is a law professor at Yale University, and the wife of Judge José A.
  • Cabranes of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
  • Her other sister, Rebecca Stith, is an attorney with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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