Alumni
Life after Law School
Where are Mizzou Law Alumni?
The Mizzou Law alumni network stretches throughout Missouri, the Midwest, all 50 states and 38 countries.
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To promote the accomplishments and activities of our alumni, Mizzou Law publishes Alumni Notes on an ongoing basis on our website. To submit Alumni Notes, or to update your contact information, please use the Alumni Update Form or send an email to mulawdean@missouri.edu.
Mizzou Alumni in the Courts
Shaping History
Throughout the more than 150-year history of the University of Missouri School of Law, countless alumni have made an incredible impact on the law school, the justice system, and the world at large.
At present, Mizzou Law alumni make up:
- Six of seven judges on the Missouri Supreme Court
- All four women on the Supreme Court, making it the first female-majority bench in Missouri history.
Alumni News
Nov. 13, 2025
Scholarship support 150 years in the making
When Dr. Maurine Hoffman Beasley decided to revive a scholarship at the University of Missouri School of Law this year, she wasn’t just making a gift in her father’s name — she was continuing a family legacy that stretches back nearly 150 years at Mizzou. “Our family has always revered the University of Missouri, going back to my grandfather and grandmother, who graduated in 1876,” Beasley said. “It was a way for our family to move up in the world.” Beasley, a 1958 graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and a retired longtime journalism professor at the University of…
June 10, 2025
Melissa Cullman Cosgrove ,’13, named U.S. Supreme Court Fellow
Melissa Cullman Cosgrove, ’13, was named a 2025-2026 U.S. Supreme Court Fellow assigned to the Federal Judicial Center, the education and research agency for the federal courts. Cosgrove joins the Supreme Court Fellows Program from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, where she was a career law clerk for the Honorable Stephen R. Welby. She previously clerked for the Honorable Stephen R. Clark and the Honorable E. Richard Webber of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. She was also an Assistant Attorney General in the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. Cosgrove…
May 8, 2025
Alumni Spotlight — Meet Gretchen Myers
by Anna Sago Growing up, Gretchen Myers, ’84, always viewed her father, a trial attorney and Mizzou Law graduate, as her hero. Now, after a long and decorated legal career, Myers will return to her and her father’s alma mater to deliver this year’s Mizzou Law commencement speech. Myers always admired her dad’s career as an attorney, calling him the “real life Atticus Finch.” But it was through debate and other public speaking in grade school and high school that her path was solidified. “I loved doing it. There was something about it that I found fun and exhilarating, when…
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