Richard Teitelman
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Richard B. (Rick) Teitelman is a justice on the Missouri Supreme Court. He was appointed to the Court in February 2002 by then-governor Bob Holden, a Democrat.
Teitelman subsequently was retained in office in November 2004 for a 12-year term that expires in 2016. Prior to his term on the state's highest court, he served on the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District from January 1998 to February 2002.
Education
Justice Teitelman earned his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics in 1969 and his Juris Doctor in 1973.[1]
Legal career
- Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, St. Louis
- Executive director and general counsel, April 1980 to January 1998
- Managing attorney, November 1976 to April 1980
- Staff attorney, Consumer Unit, June 1975 to November 1976
- Solo general practitioner, May 1974 to January 1975
Professional activities
- Judicial Conference
- Member, Executive Council, 2007-2008
- The Missouri Bar:
- Member; president-elect; vice president
- Member, Administrative Committee
- Member, Board of Governors
- Executive committee, Board of Governors
- Chair, Special Committee for the Client Security Fund Consumer Law Committee
- Chair, Delivery of Legal Services Committee
- Co-chair, Disabled, Minority and Diversity Committee, Young Lawyers' Section
- Editorial board member, Journal of The Missouri Bar
- Member, Federal Practice Committee
- Charter member, Fellows Program of Missouri Bar Foundation
- Member, Finance Committee
- Member, Gender and Justice Committee
- Member, Young Lawyers' Section Council
- American Bar Association:
- Appointed to Standing Commitee on Pro Bono and Public Service, 2007
- Appointed to Appellate Judicial Network Steering Committee, 2007
- Appointed to Judicial Division, Standing Committee on Minorities in the Judiciary, 2007
- Member, Appellate Judicial Division – Minority Clerkship Program
- Lifetime sustaining fellow of the American Bar Foundation
- Member, House of Delegates
- Past chair, Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
- Served on peer consultation project of the Center for Pro Bono
- National Italian American Bar Association
- Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
- Member: Cole County Bar Association; Eighth Circuit Bar Association; Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (sustaining member); Lawyers Association of Metropolitan St. Louis; Missouri Asian Bar Association; Mound City Bar Association; National Italian American Bar Association – elected parliamentarian; Women Lawyers Association.
- Other professional activities:
- American Blind Lawyers Association
- American Judicature Society – lifetime member, past vice president, executive committee of the board of directors
- Appointed to Program Committee for 2008
- Served on the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, advisory group to study issues relating to the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990
- Board member, American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists
- Missouri Supreme Court Advisory Committee
- Disciplinary hearing officer
- Member, Institute of Judicial Administration of New York University
- Lifetime member, National Legal Aid and Defenders Association; also a member of the association's civil committee
- Past member of the National Conference of Bar Presidents and the National Conference of Bar Foundations
- Past member, board of trustees, National Conference of Bar Foundations
- Past member, Southern Conference of Bar Presidents
Civic and charitable activities
- African-American/Jewish Task Force
- American Foundation for the Blind – Midwest regional board member
- Council for State Governments – 2003 Toll Fellowship Program
- Jewish Community Relations Council
- Leadership St. Louis
- Midtown Redevelopment Corporation – past board member
- Missouri State Historical Society
- National Federation of the Blind, Lawyers Division
- St. Louis Public Library – board member and chair of administrative affairs committee
- Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, lifetime member
Honors and awards
- Award of Honor – The Lawyer’s Association of St. Louis
- Award of Merit – Bar Association of Metropolitan St.Louis, Young Lawyers Section
- Award of Merit – National Conference of Metropolitan Courts
- Democracy in Action Award – American Jewish Congress
- Difference Makers Award – ABA Young Lawyers Division, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
- Distinguished Alumni Award – Founders Day Celebration, Washington University, St. Louis
- Distinguished Non-Alumni Award – University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law
- Durward K. McDaniel Award – American Council of the Blind
- Henry Sutton Award in Governmental Affairs – Historical Society of St. Louis
- Hodson Award for Public Service – ABA Division of Government and Public Sector Lawyers
- Honorary Initiate to the Order of the Coif – Washington University, St. Louis
- Honorary Dean – Saint Louis University School of Law's DuBourg Society
- Legal Service Award – Mound City Bar Association
- President's Award – The Missouri Bar
- Purcell Award for Professionalism – The Missouri Bar
- St. Louis Bar Foundation Award
- Lifetime Achievement Award – St. Louis Society for the Blind
- Good Guy Award – Women's Legal Caucus
- Legal Services of Eastern Missouri has created an award in honor of Judge Teitelman to recognize an outstanding lawyer in its volunteer program. The "Richard B. Teitelman Distinguished Service Award" first was presented in May 2008.
