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
LLM Alumni Spotlight — Meet Jose Abel Quezada
Jose Abel Quezada, ’24, has known that he wanted to dedicate his life to solving legal disputes with alternative dispute resolution (ADR) since he began his career as a law clerk working on complex arbitration cases. Now working in ADR as an associate at Cacheaux, Cavasos & Newton in his native Monterrey, Mexico, Quezada can point back to that earlier time as a turning point in his career path. “I realized the potential of ADR in solving legal disputes; considering litigation is overall useful but it is definitely not always the best way to solve a dispute,” Quezada said. “I…
Alumni Spotlight — Meet Kristen Evans
Going into law school at the University of Missouri, Kristen Evans, ’22, already had her eyes on a coveted position after graduation: a federal clerkship. “I felt that it would be really resourceful to do,” Evans said. “[Judicial clerks] gain a lot of knowledge about how the courts work, and that includes learning the court system, learning how to cater your arguments, your motions, your orders, to judges’ preferences.” However, Evans felt discouraged by the pervasive message that clerkships were out of her reach. Outside of Evans’ friends and mentors at Mizzou Law, many emphasized the exclusivity of federal clerkships.
Alumni Spotlight — Meet Keesha-Lu Abrahams-Mitra
by Anna Sago As the first female senior vice president and general counsel at State Farm, Keesha-Lu Abrahams-Mitra, ‘89, still finds herself relying on a skill she learned on her very first day of law school at Mizzou. “My very first day of law school — civil procedure,” Abrahams-Mitra said, “I happened to have Professor Carl Esbeck. My maiden name was Abrahams and he called on students alphabetically. So Pennoyer vs. Neff is indelibly etched in my mind, not necessarily positively.” Though Abrahams-Mitra can now laugh at her first-day cold call blunder, it taught her a valuable lesson that…
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