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Ann K. Covington (born March 5, 1942) is a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri. She was the first woman to hold that position. Covington served on the Supreme Court from 1989 to 2001; in 2001 she joined the large St. Louis, Missouri law firm Bryan Cave. Covington is 1963 graduate of
Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
where she received a Bachelor of Arts in
English literature English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ...
. She received her
Juris Doctor The Juris Doctor (J.D. or JD), also known as Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D., JD, D.Jur., or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...
from the University of Missouri in 1977. She is a native of
Fairmont, West Virginia Fairmont is a city in and county seat of Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 18,313 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Fairmont Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Marion County, a ...
. She lives in
Columbia, Missouri Columbia is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is the county seat of Boone County and home to the University of Missouri. Founded in 1821, it is the principal city of the five-county Columbia metropolitan area. It is Missouri's fourth ...
.https://boonehistory.org/hall-of-fame-2/ Ann Covington Boone County Hall of Fame


See also

* List of female state supreme court justices


References


External links


Bryan Cave page
1942 births Living people 20th-century American judges 20th-century American women lawyers 20th-century American lawyers 20th-century American women judges 21st-century American women judges 21st-century American judges Methodists from Missouri Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Missouri Duke University alumni Judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri Lawyers from St. Louis Lawyers from Columbia, Missouri Lawyers from Fairmont, West Virginia University of Missouri alumni Women chief justices of state supreme courts in the United States Women in Missouri politics {{Missouri-state-judge-stub