Judge Alok Ahuja

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District

• Appointed December 2007 to Missouri Court of Appeals. Retained by voters at the November 2010 and November 2022 general elections; term expires December 31, 2034. Served as Chief Judge, July 2014 – June 2016.

• Bachelor of Arts with Highest Distinction and Departmental Honors, Philosophy and English Literature, University of Kansas, 1985
• Juris Doctor, Yale Law School, 1988

• Law Clerk, Judge Richard D. Cudahy, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Chicago Illinois, 1988-1989
• Associate, Shea & Gardner, Washington, D.C., 1989-1992
• Associate (1992-1997) and Member (1997-2007), Lathrop & Gage L.C., Kansas City, Missouri

• The Missouri Bar
• Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (Board of Directors, 2007-2008; Chair, Appellate Court Committee, 2006)
• The American Law Institute (elected to membership 2023)
• Eight Circuit Bar Association (Board of Directors, 2007; Co-Chair, Programs Committee, 2006)
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• South Asian Bar Association
• Asian American Bar Association of Kansas City

• KCMBA, Sly James Diversity & Inclusion Award, 2017
• Vanguard Award, Asian American Bar Association of Kansas City, 2012
• Listed among the Lawyers of the Year for 2007 by Missouri Lawyers Weekly
• Listed in Best Lawyers in America in Appellate Practice, 2007
• KCMBA, Outstanding CLE Contributor Award, 2006

• “My Year with Judge Cudahy,” 67 DePaul L. Rev. 637 (2018)
• “Civil Forfeiture, Warrantless Property Seizures, and the Fourth Amendment,” 5 Yale L. & Pol. Rev. 428 (1987)

• Whatsoever Community Center (Board of Directors, 2007-2015)
• Lawyers Encouraging Academic Progress (LEAP) (President, 2018-2020; Board of Directors, 2008-present)

• Born in Raipur, C.G., India
• Married since 1986 to Nina Jane Ahuja; the couple have two daughters