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 where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English literature. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri in 1977. She is a native of Fairmont, West Virginia. She lives in Columbia, Missouri.

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

Ann K. Covington