Bio

• After graduating law school, Shelly worked as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable W. Stephen Nixon in Jackson County Circuit Court. She then went on to serve eight years as an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Clay County Missouri. Shelly has served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Missouri since 2016. She is the Unit Leader for the Labor Division in the Kansas City Attorney General’s Office.

Practice Areas

• Workers Compensation
• Prosecution – Civil and Criminal

Admitted to Practice

• Missouri, 2005

Education

• Park University, Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Marketing, 2002.
  Honors: Graduated Summa Cum Laude; Recognition as a Presidential Scholar; Dean’s List
• University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Juris Doctor, 2005.
  Honors/ Activities: Dean’s List; Student Bar Association – Secretary; The Urban Lawyer Legal Journal – Staff Associate; UMKC Law Ireland Study Abroad Program; UMKC Readmissions and Student Affairs Committee – Student Member; International Law Society – Student Member