Judge Rebeca Navarro-McKelvey
Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District
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Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District
Dates of Judicial Service:
- Elected in 2016 as Associate Circuit Judge for the 11th Judicial Circuit, St. Charles County
- Elected in 2020 as Circuit Judge for the 11th Judicial Circuit, St. Charles County
- Appointed to Missouri Court of Appeals December 2023
Education:
- Juris Doctorate, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law, 2000
- B.A., Political Science and Spanish, With Honors, University of Missouri-Columbia College of Arts & Science, 1997
Prior Employment:
- Armstrong Teasdale - Immigration and Litigation Department Associate Attorney
- St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office - White Collar Crime Prosecutor
- St. Charles County Juvenile Office - Chief Legal Counsel
- St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney's Office - Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Prosecutor
Professional Memberships:
- The Missouri Bar
- St. Charles County Bar Association
- St. Louis County Bar Association
- Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
- The Federalist Society
Civic and Charitable Activities:
- Member, Supreme Court Committee on Civic Education
- Member, Missouri Bar Association Advisory Committee on Citizenship Education
- Member, Supreme Court Steering Committee on Juvenile Court Improvement
- Member, Supreme Court Committee for Trial Judge Education
- Former Member, Supreme Court Circuit Court Budget Committee
- Former Member of Board of Directors of MAPACJ (Missouri Association of Probate and Associate Circuit Judges)
- President and Founder of Garden of Innocents, a not-for-profit corporation that provides burials for unclaimed children in the St. Louis metropolitan area
- Member St. Charles County Domestic Violence Board
- St. Charles County Foster and Adoption Support Team Advisory Board and Volunteer
- Member, St. Charles Rotary Club
- Volunteer, St. Vincent DePaul Homeless Outreach Program St. Peter Parish
- Faith in Action Award Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri
- Gateway Epsilon Sigma Alpha-DIANA Award
- Volunteer Lawyer of the Year Award Legal Services of Eastern Missouri
- Award of Merit, Young Lawyer's Division of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
Additional Information:
- Born in Managua, Nicaragua and became a naturalized citizen in 1986
- Married to Patrick Shane McKelvey (MBA, University of Missouri College of Business, 2000) with three children