REUBEN SHELTON ELECTED BOARD PRESIDENT

OF LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI

ST. LOUIS – Reuben Shelton has been elected President of the Board of Directors for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri (LSEM). He has served as interim President since February and becomes the first African-American attorney to be elected Board President of LSEM.

Shelton, who was elected to a one-year term, is Senior Counsel-Litigation for Monsanto Company. He was first appointed to the LSEM Board of Directors by the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) in 1994. Shelton served as Secretary of the board from 1999 to 2002, and Vice President from 2002 until this year when he was named interim Board President in February.

Prior to joining Monsanto, Shelton served as Special Chief Counsel-Litigation for the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. He also served as Manager, Claims and Security, for Union Electric Company (now Ameren Corporation) from 1984 to 1998, and as a Litigation Attorney for Husch & Eppenberger from 1983 to 1984.

After receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas and his law degree from St. Louis University, Shelton served as a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Clyde S. Cahill in the early 1980s. He earned his MBA from Washington University in 1991.

Shelton has state bar licenses in Missouri and Illinois and court memberships with the Missouri Circuit Court, 21st and 22nd Judicial Circuits, the United States District Court, E.D. Mo. and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

He is currently a member of the American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity; Missouri Foundation for Health, Community Advisory Committee; the Lincoln University Board of Curators, the Fair St. Louis Executive Committee and Board of Governors; and the Antioch Baptist Church Board of Trustees. Shelton also served on numerous boards and committees, including BAMSL, where he was elected the first African-American president in 1997.  - August 8, 2007