Richard B. Teitelman

Judge

Supreme Court of Missouri

2002 - Current

Appointed to Supreme Court of Missouri in February 2002 and retained in office at the November 2004 general election for a 12-year term expiring December 31, 2016. Served a two-year term as chief justice from July 2011 through June 2013.

Judge

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District

1998 - 2002

Attorney

Legal Services of Eastern Missouri

1975 - 1998

Executive director and general counsel, April 1980 to January 1998 Managing attorney, November 1976 to April 1980 Staff attorney, Consumer Unit, June 1975 to November 1976

Attorney

Solo general practitioner

1974 - 1975

J.D. (1973) | Law

1973

B.A. (1969)

1969

Clarance Darrow Award

Saint Louis University School of Law

2009

Spurgeon Smithson Award

The Missouri Bar

2009

Award of Honor

The Lawyer’s Association of St. Louis

Award of Merit

Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Young Lawyers Section

Award of Merit

National Conference of Metropolitan Courts

Democracy in Action Award

American Jewish Congress

Difference Makers Award

ABA Young Lawyers Division, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis

President's Award

The Missouri Bar

Lifetime Achievement Award

St. Louis Society for the Blind

Distinguished Alumni Award – Founders Day Celebration

Washington University, St. Louis

The Missouri Bar

Member

Current

Activities: Member; president-elect; vice president Member, Administrative Committee Member, Board of Governors Executive committee, Board of Governors Chair, Special Committee for the Client Security Fund Consumer Law Committee Chair, Delivery of Legal Services Committee Co-chair, Disabled, Minority and Diversity Committee, Young Lawyers' Section Editorial board member, Journal of The Missouri Bar Member, Federal Practice Committee Charter member, Fellows Program of Missouri Bar Foundation Member, Finance Committee Member, Gender and Justice Committee Member, Young Lawyers' Section Council

American Bar Association

Member

Current

Activities: Appointed to Standing Commitee on Pro Bono and Public Service, 2007 Appointed to Appellate Judicial Network Steering Committee, 2007 Appointed to Judicial Division, Standing Committee on Minorities in the Judiciary, 2007 Member, Appellate Judicial Division – Minority Clerkship Program Lifetime sustaining fellow of the American Bar Foundation Member, House of Delegates Past chair, Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law Served on peer consultation project of the Center for Pro Bono Participant, Judicial Clerkship Program, 2010 Member, Senior Lawyer Division Chair, Diversity Committee

National Italian American Bar Association

elected parliamentarian

Current

Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis

Sustaining member

Current

Activities: Past president; president-elect; vice president; secretary and member-at-large ABA Delegate Member, Administrative Law Committee Member, Blue Ribbon Justice Committee and the Public Information Committee Sustaining member of the Cornerstone Campaign Member, Federal Practice Committee Member, Finance Committee Member, Government and Public Sector Lawyers Committee Chair, Trial Section Chair, vice chair and secretary of the Young Lawyers Section President, vice president and secretary of the St. Louis Bar Foundation Charter member, Fellows of the St. Louis Bar Foundation

Cole County Bar Association, Eighth Circuit Bar Association, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (sustaining member), Lawyers Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri Asian Bar Association, Hispanic Bar Association of St. Louis, Mound City Bar Association, Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association, Women Lawyers Association

Member

Current

Conference of Chief Justices

Elected, Second Vice-President of the Board of Directors

2012 - 2012

Judicial Conference

Member, Executive Council

2007 - 2008

Plain Language Laws: Giving the Consumer an Even Break

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