Senior Arbitrator Panel
Honorable Joan M. Burger
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Education
• USA&M Midwest, Inc. Mediator Training, 2008
• Mediation Training, Association of Attorney Mediators, 1994
• Mediation Training, Federal District Court, Eastern District, 1994
• Certified State and Federal Mediator since 1994
• St. Louis University, J.D. cum laude 1976
• Loyola University (Chicago, IL), B.S.
Accomplishments
Judge Burger was a Circuit Judge for the Twenty Second Judicial Circuit for thirteen years (1995-2008); she was the trial judge for many complicated civil cases including multi-week trials and one trial lasting three months. She was appointed to sit on the Missouri Supreme Court to hear cases as special judge in 1997. She was Presiding Judge for the St. Louis Drug Court for two years; Truancy Court Judge at Roosevelt High School for four years. Judge Burger retired from the bench in 2008. Before becoming a judge, she practiced law for nineteen years; first as a prosecutor for four years with the Juvenile Court and then as an Assistant Circuit Attorney. For the next fifteen years, she practiced law with small firms or in solo practice. Judge Burger’s practice included cases in St. Louis City, St. Louis County, St. Charles County and Jefferson County. She served as a Hearing Officer for the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners during that time.
Affiliations
• Women Lawyers' Association of St. Louis (Past President)
• Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (Past Chair of the Women in the Profession Committee-3 years; Past Co-Chair of the Solo and Small Firm Practitioner Section)
• Missouri Bar
• National Association of Women Judges (Past Member- 10 years)
• American Judicature Society
• National Association of Women Business Owners (Board of Directors-3 years)
• St. Louis Forum (Board of Directors)
• United Way (Admissions Committee; Venture Grant Committee- 5 years)
• Valuing Diversity Task Force
• Monsanto YMCA (Board of Directors)
• Leadership St. Louis
• Focus St. Louis
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