News & Media
Spring 2025
♦ Appellate Roadshow: Eastern, Southern, Western districts plan visits throughout Missouri. Read more»June 2025
♦ Justice Matters: Missouri chief justice discusses vital role court staff play in serving communities statewide. Read more»
May 2025
♦ Justice Matters: Missouri chief justice discusses role of comfort dogs in Missouri courts. Read more»
April 2025
♦ Justice Matters: Missouri chief justice discusses improvements in the jury selection process. Read more»
March 2025
♦ Justice Matters: Missouri chief justice discusses new documentary featuring Supreme Court of Missouri's first female judges. Read more»
February 2025
♦ Learn about the importance of the work Missouri courts do daily in their communities from the chief justice's 2025 State of the Judiciary address. Read more and access video of the speech»
January 2025
♦ Justice Matters: Missouri chief justice explains how treatment court programs help participants find new beginnings. Read more»
December 2024
♦ Justice Matters: Wishing everyone a happy holiday season ... especially those who open their hearts to help children in need. Read more»
Fall 2024
♦ Appellate Roadshow: Eastern, Western districts plan visits throughout Missouri. Read more»November 2024
♦ Justice Matters: Missouri chief justice expresses gratitude for military members. Read more»
October 2024
♦ Justice Matters: Understanding the variety of judicial elections in Missouri. Read more»
September 2024
♦ Justice Matters: Judiciary promotes transparency for Missourians to access their courts. Read more»
♦ Judges from the Supreme Court of Missouri and Missouri Court of Appeals visited with children September 18 at LifeWise Head Start in St. Louis. Provided courtesy of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, read Katie Kull's news story, "Missouri's top judges head back to class to promote literacy at St. Louis preschool."
August 2024
♦ Justice Matters: Adoptions serve as highlight for children, families ... and judges too. Read more»
July 2024
♦ Justice Matters: Judges go back to school every year too! Read more»
Spring 2024
♦ Appellate Roadshow: Eastern, Western districts plan visits throughout Missouri. Read more»June 2024
♦ Justice Matters: Missouri’s attorney discipline system has worked to protect the public for 90 years. Read more»
May 2024
♦ Justice Matters: Your fellow Missourians count on you to answer the call for jury service. Read more»
April 2024
♦ Justice Matters: Better understanding 'we' are 'the people' responsible for shaping our shared governance. Read more»
March 2024
♦ Justice Matters: Baseball analogies only partially explain what judges do. Read more»
February 2024
♦ Justice Matters: Celebrating African Americans, women in our legal profession, courts. Read more»
♦ The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, held oral arguments February 21 at Parkway North High School in St. Louis. Provided courtesy of St. Louis Public Radio, see photos by Eric Lee and read Rachel Lippmann's news story, "Parkway North High students see appeals court without leaving school." Read more»
January 2024
♦ Justice Matters: Missouri judges work every day to be ethical, earn title of 'honor.' Read more»
December 2023
♦ Justice Matters: New year brings changing of judicial guardians. Read more»
♦ Justice Matters: Gentlewoman leaves legacy of generational change. Read more»
Fall 2023
♦ Appellate Roadshow: Eastern, Western districts plan visits throughout Missouri. Read more»November 2023
♦ Justice Matters: Giving thanks to those at the heart of our court system. Read more»
Summer 2023
♦ Appellate Roadshow: Eastern, Western districts plan visits throughout Missouri. Read more»Spring 2023
♦ Appellate Roadshow: Eastern, Western districts plan visits throughout Missouri. Read more»March 2023
November 2022
March 2022
♦ Circuit judge helps St. Louis students navigate complex First Amendment issues. Read more»
♦ Missouri Court of Appeals hears arguments at Saint Louis University School of Law. Read more»
♦ Supreme Court judges explain third branch of government to leadership groups. Read more»
♦ Elementary student gets to try on judicial robe during Supreme Court visit. Read more»
February 2022
♦ Retired teachers gather in Grandview to learn about Missouri courts. Read more»
December 2021
October 2021
♦ Brookside Charter School students learn how to apply Fourth Amendment. Read more»
February 2021
♦ Watch Missouri Chief Justice George W. Draper III deliver the 2021 State of the Judiciary address. Read more»
January 2021
♦ Have Gavel, Will Travel: Civic education committee offers presentations from no-tech to virtual. Read more»
♦ Missouri-based judges team up for new civic education presentation comparing state, federal court systems. Read more»
December 2020
♦ Supreme Court of Missouri celebrates courts' bicentennial through new civic education presentations. Read more»
November 2020
♦ Have Gavel, Will Travel Go Virtual! Missouri judges turn to technology to demystify third branch of government. Read more»
May 2020
♦ Appeals court judge engages with students in virtual civics discussion. Read more»
November 2019
♦ Have Gavel, Will Travel: New presentations help Missouri judges demystify third branch of government. Read more»
April 2019
♦ Supreme Court of Missouri Clerk Betsy AuBuchon addresses student leaders during annual sophomore pilgrimage. Read more»
February 2019
♦ The Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, travels February 20 to Parkview High School in Springfield. Read Linda Simmons' news story and watch videos from the event from KY3. Read more»
♦ Greene County Associate Circuit Judge Becky Borthwick speaks February 13 with the Missouri State University 'Criminal Law and the Courts' class in Springfield. Read more»
January 2019
♦ Have Gavel, Will Travel: Missouri judges hit the road to demystify third branch of government. Read more»
March 2018
♦ Greene County Circuit Judge Jason Brown speaks with the 'Criminal Law and the Courts' class March 21 at Missouri State University in Springfield. Read more»
May 2015
♦ Campbell Middle School Hosts a Day of Civic Education. Read more»
March 2015
♦ Civic education pilot speakers encourage judges to volunteer to deliver presentations in their communities. Read more»
February 2015
♦ A new presentation designed by the Supreme Court of Missouri's civic education committee helps illustrate and educate the public about the important role of judges in taking guilty pleas. Read more»
September 2014
♦ The Battle of Skokie video produced by the Supreme Court of Missouri's civic education committee examines the question of whether the First Amendment's Freedom of Speech protects the rights of American Nazi Party to march in the predominantly-Jewish city of Skokie, Illinois. Read more»
August 2014
♦ NewsTribune.com article by Hilgedick, Kris titled 'Judge Patricia Breckenridge: New Supreme Court website will foster civic education', 20 July 2014. Read more»
July 2014
♦ Reflections of Missouri Chief Justice Mary R. Russell that make up her most recent Justice Matters column. Read more»
♦ The Supreme Court of Missouri's civic education committee launched a new website to help Missourians learn about Missouri courts and judges. Read more»
May 2014
♦ Teachers arrange a tour of the Supreme Court of Missouri to accompany visits to the capitol building and governor's mansion, in an effort to let their students see the three branches of government first-hand. Read more»
April 2014
♦ Judge Patricia Breckenridge of the Supreme Court of Missouri and Dr. Anthony Simones, manager of judicial education at the state courts administrator's office, piloted two programs at the Supreme Court to an audience of honors students from Southeast Missouri State University. Read more»
♦ Judge Gary Lynch, an appellate judge in the state of Missouri, was asked to visit the classroom of a Fair Play, Missouri, preschool on Abraham Lincoln's birthday and read the students a book about Lincoln. Read more»
January 2014
♦ Mary R. Russell, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, delivered the following State of the Judiciary address Wednesday morning, January 22, 2014, during a joint session of the General Assembly in Jefferson City, Missouri. Read more»
May 2011
♦ The Supreme Court of Missouri and The Missouri Bar received national recognition for law day activities that included a middle school student competition about the legacy of John Adams. Read more»
