Mary Rhodes Russell

{{Short description|American judge (born 1958)}}

{{other people|Mary Russell}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Mary Russell

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|office = Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court

|term_start = July 1, 2023

|term_end =

|predecessor = Paul C. Wilson

|successor =

|term_start1 = July 1, 2013

|term_end1 = June 30, 2015

|predecessor1 = Richard B. Teitelman

|successor1 = Patricia Breckenridge

|office2 = Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court

|appointer2 = Bob Holden

|term_start2 = September 20, 2004

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|predecessor2 = Duane Benton

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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|7|28}}

|birth_place = Hannibal, Missouri, U.S.

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|death_place =

|education = Truman State University (BS)
University of Missouri (JD)

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Mary Rhodes Russell (born July 28, 1958){{Cite web |url=https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/bluebook/2009-2010/5_Jud.pdf |title=Official Manual, State of Missouri 2009–2010 |website=Secretary of State of Missouri |access-date=September 27, 2021 |page=232}} is the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.{{Cite web |date=July 1, 2023 |title=Chief Justice Mary R. Russell|url=https://www.courts.mo.gov/page.jsp?id=203 |access-date=July 21, 2023 |website=www.courts.mo.gov |language=en}} She previously served a two-year term as chief justice from July 2013 through June 2015. She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2004 by Governor Bob Holden.

In 1980 she graduated summa cum laude from Northeast Missouri State University and received her Juris Doctor degree in 1983 from the University of Missouri. She served as a law clerk for George Gunn at the Supreme Court of Missouri, before entering private practice in Hannibal, Missouri.

She served on the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, from 1994 to 2004 and served as chief judge from 1999 to 2000.

On September 20, 2004, she was appointed by Governor Bob Holden to serve as a judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri.{{Cite web |last=Pierceall |first=Ann |date=September 21, 2004 |title=Russell reaches highest court in Missouri |url=https://www.whig.com/archive/article/russell-reaches-highest-court-in-missouri/article_ab0dffa5-299a-5300-aba0-8e4d541934c4.html |access-date=November 24, 2023 |website=Herald-Whig |language=en}}