Kathryn Pierce
Lecturer in Law and Clinic Attorney
E-mail: kpierce@wulaw.wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-8275
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 124
Assistant: Bev Owens
Phone: (314) 935-6482
Courses Taught
Civil Justice Clinic
Education
LL.M., 2007, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
J.D., 2001, University of Missouri Columbia School of Law
B.S.W., 1997, University of Kansas
Profile
Pierce has been serving as an attorney for the St. Louis City Trial Office of the Missouri State Public Defenders System, where she previously served as an attorney in the St. Louis City Youth Advocacy Unit and as an intern coordinator. Additionally, she has worked as interim co-legal director for Voices for Children (formerly St. Louis City CASA), where she also held the positions of supervising staff attorney and staff attorney. An advocate for the rights of youths, Pierce has extensive experience as an instructor in the Street Law Program in both St. Louis and Chicago and as a supervisor for Voices for Children.
She is the author of “Nowhere to Turn: The Battle of Girls in Care to Exercise Their Reproductive Rights,” which was published in The Michigan Child Welfare Law Journal in fall 2008. Pierce received her LL.M. in child and family law from Loyola University–Chicago School of Law in 2007; her J.D. from theUniversity of Missouri–Columbia School of Law in 2001; and her B.S.W. from the University of Kansas in 1997.
