Missouri Bar Foundation

For more than 45 years, the Missouri Bar Foundation has worked to provide financial support to worthwhile law-related educational and charitable endeavors.

The Foundation's primary goals, as established when it was founded in 1950, continue today. They are:

• To aid needy women members of The Missouri Bar and/or the needy dependents of deceased members of The Missouri Bar through the Eunice Cutter Cox Memorial Fund, which was established for those specific purposes;

• To promote improvements in the administration of justice and advancement of the science of jurisprudence;

• To work for the preservation of the American constitutional form of government; and

• To preserve historic books, documents and other items of legal significance or bearing on the administration of justice.

Within these general guidelines, the Foundation has provided partial or full funding for a number of beneficial projects, including:

• An annual law-related education conference for Missouri social studies teachers;

• Reprinting of The Senior Citizens Handbook, an important guide to the law for older Missourians;

• Programs to aid Missouri Bar members afflicted with drug or alcohol dependency problems;

• Educational seminars for the commissions who consider applications for judicial openings under Missouri's merit selection plan;

• A statewide Law Day Essay Contest sponsored by The Missouri Bar Young Lawyers' Section; and

• Recognition, through awards presented at each annual meeting, of those members of the bar who have rendered distinguished service to the legal profession.