Husch Blackwell names Catherine Hanaway chair-elect

Husch Blackwell's partners elected Catherine Hanaway to serve as the law firm's next chair.

Hanaway is slated to succeed Chairman Greg Smith after his term ends March 31, 2021.

Formerly U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri and speaker of Missouri’s House of Representatives, Hanaway also launched an unsuccessful bid for governor in 2016, when she lost the Republican primary to Eric Greitens.

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