Nicole Colbert-Botchway sworn in as the 91st president of the Mound City Bar Association at the 2013 Scovel Richardson Scholarship Dinner on Saturday, June 29.
Mound City Bar is one of the oldest black bar associations west of the Mississippi River. It was organized as the St. Louis Negro Bar Association on January 13, 1922, shortly after World War I. At that time, black lawyers were not allowed to join the all-white St. Louis Bar Association.
A lifelong resident of the city of St. Louis, Nicole Colbert-Botchway earned her Bachelor’s and Juris Doctorate Degrees from St. Louis University in 1993 and 1996, respectively.
Before joining the Missouri Attorney General’s Office in 2004 as Child Support Unit Leader for the Financial Services Division, she served six years as a prosecutor in the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office and earned an MBA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
This year she was elected to the Board of Governors of the Missouri Bar – a statewide organization that serves all 29,000 of Missouri’s practicing attorneys. She also serves on its Professionalism Task Force, the Missouri Supreme Court’s Child Support Guidelines Review Subcommittee and its Joint Committee on Gender and Justice.
She is the first African-American president of the Women Lawyers’ Association of Greater St. Louis and its first lifetime member.
Mound City Bar’s objectives are to advance the professional interest of its members; to improve the administration of justice; to uphold the honor of the legal profession; to promote the professional development of our members; and to provide service to the community.
It also provides a host of other professional and social networking opportunities for judges, attorneys and law students, including an annual picnic, holiday reception, cosponsoring programs with the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and The Missouri Bar, and providing pro bono services to the community.
