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Whitehead</font></b></b><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><br /> 188</b></p> 189<b style="line-height: 1.38462; font-family: arial, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"> 190</b> 191<p class="p2" style="line-height: 1.38462; font-family: arial, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Principal / Attorney</p> 192<p class="p4" style="line-height: 1.38462; font-family: arial, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Phone: 816-210-4449</p> 193<p class="p4" style="line-height: 1.38462; font-family: arial, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p> 194<p class="p6" style="line-height: 1.38462; font-family: arial, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">Michael K. Whitehead is a Kansas City trial attorney with over 35 years experience. In 1981, he was co-counsel in a landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court, <a href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=454&invol=263"><span class="s1">
194Widmar v. Vincent</span></a><span class="s1"> </span><span class="s2"> </span>454 US 263, establishing the right of p<span class="s2">ublic university students to “equal access” for religious worship meetings in a campus student union. 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. </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. He also has served as trial counsel, consulting counsel, or <i>amicus curiae </i>counsel in trial and appellate 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, Mike and Jim also worked with the </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;"> to urge passage of the federal </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 </span><i style="line-height: 1.38462;">Widmar</i><span style="line-height: 1.38462;"> rule to public high schools.</span><br /> 198<span class="s3"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><br /> 199</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">From 1991-95, Mike served as general counsel for the </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;"> public policy and religious liberty </span></span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">agency</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 1.4;"> 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 <i>“friend of the court”</i> briefs with the US Supreme Court on issues of family, faith and freedom on behalf of Southern Baptists. He has appeared in the Washington <i>Post</i>, <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>World</i> Magazine and the Oprah Winfrey Show.</span><br /> 200</span></p> 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 <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. For nearly two years, he served as interim president of the seminary, after serving as business vice president for several years. 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. Whitehead's practice has included serving individuals, churches, denominations, religious institutions, and other charities and non-profit organizations. </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> 203<p class="p12" style="line-height: 1.38462; font-family: arial, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span class="s3">(</span>See <a href="C.V.html">Curriculum Vitae <span class="s8">here</span></a><span class="s3">) <br /> 204<br /> 205<br /> 206</span></p></div><div style="display:block;background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
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214 215</div><div style="display:block;" ></div><div style="display:block;" ></div></div></div><div id="content2"><div style="display:block;" ><div style="display:block;" ><span><img src="//img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/8ab9b3a5-cad2-4ff7-91ca-0ca537e6acb3/legacy/photo1_jnjz.jpg" width="360" height="280" /></span></div></div></div><div id="content3"><div style="display:block;" ><div style="display:block;" ><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif; color: #444444;"> 216<div> 217<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span></strong></p> 218</div> 219</div> 220<div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif;"> 221<div> 222<div> 223<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000000;">Personal</span></span><span style="color: #000000;">: </span></span></p> 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;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p> 225<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000000;">Education</span></span><span style="color: #000000;">: </span></span></p> 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, 1975, Missouri University Law School. </span></span></p> 227<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">B.A. degree, 1972, Political Science / Public law, Missouri University, Columbia. </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&Template=/Templates/TemplateHomepage/PhiBetaKappaSociety_1504_20060223T201608_LayoutHomePage.cfm">Phi Beta Kappa</a></span> </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: <a href="http://classreport.org/usa/mo/independence/ths/1968/">Truman High Schoo</a>l, Independence, MO, 1968. </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"> </span></span></span></span></span></p> 229<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"></span></span></p> 230<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444;"><strong><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;">Admissions: </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. </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;"> </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;"> <br /> 234<br /> 235Federal District Court in Kansas </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;"> </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;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p> 240</div> 241</div> 242</div> 243<div style="color: #444444;"> 244<div><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, kalimati, sans-serif;"> 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;">: </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. </span></span></span><br /> 248<br /> 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 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; Chair, Committee on Order of Business; member, Committee on Committees.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> 252</span> 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: </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, </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, </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. § 2000bb.</span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"> </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 </span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"> 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;"> </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;"> with President Bill Clinton and White House staff regarding Religious Freedom Restoration Act and its application to bankruptcy proceedings, 1994-1995. </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. </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&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, <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, <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;">: </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="color: #000000;"> </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;"> </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;"> Sep. 2005-date, appointed by Gov. 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