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194<p class="p6" style="line-height: 1.38462; font-family: arial, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">Michael K. &nbsp;Whitehead is a Kansas City trial attorney with over 35 years experience. &nbsp;&nbsp;In 1981, he was co-counsel in a landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court,&nbsp;<a href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&amp;vol=454&amp;invol=263"><span class="s1">
194Widmar v. Vincent</span></a><span class="s1">&nbsp;</span><span class="s2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>454 US 263, establishing the right of p<span class="s2">ublic university students to &#8220;equal access&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;for religious worship meetings in a campus student union. &nbsp; In 2017, he was co-counsel in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-577_khlp.pdf">Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, MO, v. Comer</a>,<a href="https://www.leagle.com/decision/insco20170626a86">137 S. Ct. 2012</a> (2017), banning state discrimination against churches in public benefit programs.&nbsp;</span></p>
195<p class="p7" style="line-height: 1.38462; font-family: arial, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">He has served as general counsel for several religious institutions and non-profit organizations, including the Southern Baptist Convention Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Washington, D.C., and the Missouri Baptist Convention. &nbsp;He also has served as trial counsel, consulting counsel, or <i>amicus curiae </i>counsel in trial and&nbsp;appellate&nbsp;courts around the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court.</p>
196<p class="p9" style="line-height: 1.38462; font-family: arial, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">Mike served as a Captain in the U.S. Army JAG Corps from 1975-78, and then returned to Kansas City to begin a partnership with James M. Smart, Jr.</p>
197<p class="p10" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span class="s3"><span style="line-height: 1.38462;">After winning the Widmar case, &nbsp;Mike and Jim also worked with the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.clsnet.org/" style="line-height: 1.38462;"><span class="s4">Christian Legal Society</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.38462;">&nbsp;to urge passage of the federal&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/20/4071.html" style="line-height: 1.38462;"><span class="s5">Equal Access Act</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.38462;">, which applies the&nbsp;</span><i style="line-height: 1.38462;">Widmar</i><span style="line-height: 1.38462;">&nbsp;rule to public high schools.</span><br />
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199</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">From 1991-95, Mike served as general counsel for the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sbc.net/" style="line-height: 1.4;"><span class="s6">Southern Baptist Convention's</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;public policy and religious liberty&nbsp;</span></span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">agency</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 1.4;">&nbsp;in Washington, DC. The SBC is the nation's largest protestant denomination, with over 16 million members in over 40,000 local churches. He met with the White House, testified before Congress, and filed&nbsp;<i>&#8220;friend of the court&#8221;</i>&nbsp;briefs with the US Supreme Court on issues of family, faith and freedom on behalf of Southern Baptists. He has appeared in the Washington&nbsp;<i>Post</i>,&nbsp;<i>Wall Street Journal</i>,&nbsp;<i>World</i>&nbsp;Magazine and the Oprah Winfrey Show.</span><br />
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201<p class="p10" style="line-height: 1.38462; font-family: arial, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span class="s3">From 1995-2001, Mike served at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.mbts.edu/"><span class="s6">Midwestern Baptist Seminary</span></a>, where he taught courses as assistant professor of church-state law. &nbsp;For nearly two years, he served as interim president of the seminary, after serving as business vice president for several years. &nbsp;He returned to private law practice in the fall of 2001.</span></p>
202<p class="p10" style="line-height: 1.38462; font-family: arial, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">Since 2001<span class="s7">, Mr.&nbsp;Whitehead's practice has included serving individuals, churches, denominations, religious institutions, and other charities and non-profit organizations.&nbsp;</span>Mike has served as general legal counsel for the Missouri Baptist Convention, supervising a legal team handling complex litigation seeking the recovery of five breakaway ministry corporations, valued at nearly a quarter of a billion dollars. (See Representative Cases <a href="http://thewhiteheadfirm.com/Representative_Cases.html"><span class="s8">here</span></a>.)</p>
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224<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">Born in 1950, in Independence, Missouri.</span></span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p>
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226<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Juris Doctor </span>degree, &nbsp;1975, Missouri University Law School. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>
227<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">B.A. degree, 1972, &nbsp;Political Science / Public law, Missouri University, Columbia. &nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span><a href="http://www.pbk.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home3&amp;Template=/Templates/TemplateHomepage/PhiBetaKappaSociety_1504_20060223T201608_LayoutHomePage.cfm">Phi Beta Kappa</a></span>&nbsp;</span></span><span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span></span></p>
228<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">High School: &nbsp;<a href="http://classreport.org/usa/mo/independence/ths/1968/">Truman High Schoo</a>l, Independence, MO, &nbsp;1968. </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></p>
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230<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><strong><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">Admissions: &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p>
231<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><strong><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">U.S. Supreme Court. &nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p>
232<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><strong><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">Supreme Court of Missouri.</span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p>
233<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><strong><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">State and Federal Courts in Missouri.</span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;<br />
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235Federal District Court in Kansas&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p>
236<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><strong><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.</span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p>
237<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #444444;"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Affiliations:<br />
238</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.mobar.org"><font>Missouri Bar Association</font></a></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p>
239<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><strong><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px;"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.kcmba.org/" style="color: red;"><font color="#000000">Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Ass'n</font></a></span><span style="color: #000000;">;</span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p>
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245<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"></span></span></span></span></p>
246<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: #000000;">Professional and Community Activities</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: #000000;">: &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
247<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/">Alliance Defending Freedom</a></span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">, Scottsdale, AZ, member of an advisory board since its founding 1994.&nbsp;</span></span></span><br />
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249<a href="http://www.clsnet.org">Christian Legal Society</a>, national board of directors.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
250<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.mobaptist.org/">Missouri Baptist Convention</a></span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: small;">
250&nbsp;parliamentarian, Resolutions Committee</span></p>
251<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span><a href="http://www.sbc.net">Southern Baptist Convention</a></span>, Chair, Resolutions Committee; &nbsp;Chair, Committee on Order of Business; member, Committee on Committees.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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253<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">Public Policy Advocacy: &nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
254<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">Coalition for Free Exercise of Religion, 1990 to 1993, &nbsp;</span></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">involved in drafting and lobbying for passage of Religious Freedom Restoration Act,&nbsp;</span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #000000;">42 U.S.C. &#167; 2000bb.</span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
255<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">Testified&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;before Congressional Committee regarding proposed EEOC guidelines on religious harassment under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, June 1994.</span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
256<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">Met</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;with President Bill Clinton and White House staff regarding Religious Freedom Restoration Act and its application to bankruptcy proceedings, 1994-1995. &nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
257<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">Honors, Awards:</span></span></strong></p>
258<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">Religious Heritage of America, Business and Professional Award, 1995.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></p>
259<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif;"><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span><a href="http://www.pbk.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home3&amp;Template=/Templates/TemplateHomepage/PhiBetaKappaSociety_1504_20060223T201608_LayoutHomePage.cfm">Phi Beta Kappa</a></span>, 1972, University of Missouri.</span></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
260<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 13px;">Distinguished Service Award, &nbsp;<a href="http://www.mbcclc.org">Christian Life Commission</a>, Missouri Baptist Convention, 2000.</span></span></p>
261<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 13px;">Honor Guard, &nbsp;<a href="http://www.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/">Alliance Defending Freedom</a>, 2004.</span></span></p>
262<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px;"></span></span></p>
263<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span><span style="color: #000000;">Military Service</span></span></span><span><span style="color: #000000;">: &nbsp;</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></p>
264<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: #000000;">Captain, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas, 1976-78, handling administrative law matters as well as prosecuting courts martial, as Chief Trial Counsel.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
265<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000000;">Public Service:</span></span><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span><a href="http://jceb.co.jackson.mo.us/" style="color: red;"><span style="color: #000000;"></span></a></span></span></p>
266<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.jcebmo.org">Jackson County Election Board</a>,</span><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;Sep. 2005-date, appointed by Gov. Matt Blunt and reappointed by Gov. Jay Nixon and Gov. Eric Greitens. Chairman, 2018-&nbsp;
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