William Ray Price
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William Ray Price, Jr. is a justice on the Missouri Supreme Court. He was appointed to the court on April 7, 1992 by then-governor John Ashcroft, a Republican. Price was then retained in office first in November 1994 for a 12-year term that expired in 2006 and was again retained in November 2006 for another twelve-year term on the court. His current term expires in 2018.
Price also served as Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court from July 1999 through June 2001.[1]
Education
Justice Price was educated in the Keokuk, Iowa, public schools before receiving a Bachelor of Arts with high distinction (Religion) in 1974 from the University of Iowa. He was also a Rockefeller Fellow at Yale University Divinity School from 1974-1975, and earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude from Washington and Lee University School of Law, 1978.
Legal career
Price was an Attorney with the Lathrop Norquist law firm in Kansas City from 1978 to 1992, where he served as an Associate (1978-1983) and a Partner (1984-1992). He was Chairman, Business Litigation Section, (1987-1988 and 1990-1992); Member, Managing Partners Committee (1989-1990); and Member, Executive Committee (1990-1992).
Professional activities
- Member, The Missouri Bar, 1978 to date
- Life Member, Fellows of the American Bar Association
- Member, National Conference of Chief Justices, 1999 to 2001
- Vice president, 2000 to 2001
- Chairman, Seniority and Geographical Representation Committee, 2000 to 2001
- Member, Task Force on Multidisciplinary Practice
- Member, Task Force on Problem-Solving Courts
- Chair, Appellate Judicial Commission, 1999 to 2001
- Chairman, Missouri Drug Court Commission, 2001 to present
- Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners:
- Secretary-attorney, 1985 to 1989
- President, 1989 to 1992
- Member, GL. v. Zumwalt monitoring committee, US District Court for the Western District of Missouri, 1985 to 1987
- Member, executive committee and board of directors, Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, 1987 to 1992
- Chairman, Merit Selection Commission for United States Marshal, Western District of Missouri,1989
Civic activities
- Member, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
- Member, First Christian Church, Jefferson City, 1992 to present
- Elder, 1997 to 2000, 2004 to present
- President, Board of Elders, 1999 to 2000, 2004 to present
- Member, Country Club Christian Church, Kansas City, 1979 to 1992
- Elder, 1989 to 1992
- Deacon, 1982 to 1985, 1987 to 1989
- Member, Kappa Sigma fraternity
- Member, First Christian Church, Jefferson City, 1992 to present
Awards and honors
- The Claire McCaskill Award, Missouri Association of Drug Court Professionals, 2006
- The Roosevelt Award, Greene County Drug Court, 2002
- Robert Walston Chubb Award, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, 2001
- Distinguished Non-Alumnus Award, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, 1996
- Recipient, Hancher-Finkbine Undergraduate Award, University of Iowa, 1974
- Individual Winner, Burks Moot Court Competition, Washington and Lee University School of Law
- Burkes Teaching Fellowship, Washington and Lee University School of Law
- Member, Phi Beta Kappa national undergraduate academic honors society
- Member, Omicron Delta Kappa national leadership honor society
- Member, Phi Eta Sigma national honors society
