Amy Lorenz-Moser Joins Board of Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence

Amy Lorenz-Moser, an Armstrong Teasdale litigation partner who has spent more than a decade fighting for the rights of abused women, has been elected to the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (MCADSV )2013 board of
directors. She will serve as the board’s secretary/treasurer and an officer of the executive committee.

MCADSV is a statewide membership coalition of organizations and individuals working to end violence against women and their children through direct services and social and systemic change. This is the first time in the coalition’s history that members of the public have been selected to join the board. Previously all board members were selected from member programs.

Lorenz-Moser’s efforts garnered national attention in 2010 when she won freedom for two women who had been convicted of killing their husbands at a time when Missouri barred evidence of domestic abuse in murder trials. The women had each spent more than 30 years behind bars. Her representation is featured in the documentary “The Perfect Victim” that was recently shown at the St. Louis International Film Festival.

Because of her dedicated work on behalf of abused women, Lorenz-Moser received the prestigious American Bar Association Pro Bono Publico award in August 2012. She has also received Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s highest honor “Lawyer of the Year” as well as the Spirit of Justice Award from the Fellows of the St. Louis Bar Foundation. She has also been honored with Saint Louis University School of Law’s Excellence Award and Webster University Alumni Association’s Loretto Award for social justice.

In addition to her awards, Lorenz-Moser serves on the board of Connections to
Success.

Advocating on behalf of abused women since law school, Lorenz-Moser received her J.D., Order of the Coif, from the University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law in 2000 and B.A. from Webster University in 1997.