Board Hires New Attorney
Filed Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 12:00 PM
“The Board has hired a new attorney,” Alderman Steve Conway told reporters in the hall outside the Board of Aldermen chamber. “Denise Watson-Wesley Coleman.”
Coleman is the first African American ever to hold the important attorney/clerk position. Her selection, which occurred in a closed session this morning, comes as a compromise after the board was divided among two other candidates, Hope Whitehead, the former head of the state Liquor Control Division, and Annette Kolis Mandel, a former mayor of Creve Coeur.
According to Lawyers.com, Coleman, 61, was born in Chicago and graduated from DePaul University in 1976. She received her law degree from St. Louis University in 1984.
Coleman has experience in the following areas of law: Public Finance; Administrative Law; Health Care; International Law; Criminal Law; Probate; Personal Injury; and General Practice.
Her previous experience includes: Law Clerk, 22nd Judicial Circuit, 1988. Member, Board of Directors, Harry S. Truman Restorative Center, 1989-1995. Member: Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, 1989-1998; American Bar Association, 1989-1997; Illinois Bar Association, 1989-1997; National Association of Bond Lawyers, 1989-1995; Junior League of St. Louis, 1989-1995; Mentor, Homeless Mothers and work for St. Louis Public Schools.
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