Former Missouri Supreme Court Judge William Ray Price, Jr. Honored With Champion of Justice Award

Former Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ray Price, who recently joined as a partner, has been honored with the Champion of Justice Award from the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL). The award recognizes Price’s dedication to judicial excellence and his steadfast support of the Missouri Plan as well as for his role in establishing drug courts and reforming sentencing guidelines.

Price received The Champion of Justice Award at a BAMSL luncheon in his honor on August 17, 2012.

Serving more than 20 years and two terms as chief justice on the state's highest court, Price also served on a number of national boards that focus on improving the education of judges in a wide variety of subjects.

Price retired from the bench on August 1 and . He has a state-wide practice focusing on complex commercial and tort matters and maintains offices in St. Louis, Kansas City and Jefferson City. 

Prior to his appointment to Missouri’s highest court in 1992, Price was a business litigation attorney for 14 years at a major Kansas City-based law firm. He was a member of the firm’s three-person executive committee and chairman of its business litigation section. Price also served as president of the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners and as a member of the board of directors of Truman Medical Center.

Price received his J.D., cum laude, from Washington and Lee University School of Law, was a Rockefeller Fellow at Yale University Divinity School, and earned his B.A. in religion, with high distinction, from the University of Iowa.