BELLEVILLE –– Missouri Lawyers Media awarded Christopher A. Pickett the organization's diversity and inclusion award on July 25.
Pickett is an officer for the Greensfelder, Hemker and Gale law firm. He serves as the firm's chief diversity officer.
Pick joins 20 attorneys, firms and organizations from around Missouri honored with Missouri Lawyers Media's first diversity and inclusion award. The award is given to recipients who advance the principals throughout the legal profession and impacted communities.
Pickett is a graduate of Saint Louis University School of Law. He earned his bachelor's at the school as well.
The recipient of numerous other awards and honors, Pickett was named a fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity in 2013 and one of St. Louis’ most intriguing people to know by Who’s Who, Diversity in St. Louis in 2015. In 2016, he received the St. Louis Business Journal's Diverse Business Leader Award and was named by St. Louis Small Business Monthly as one of the “100 St. Louis-ans you should know” in 2017. In addition, Pickett received the 2017 Excellence in Business Performance Award from the St. Louis American Foundation of the St. Louis American newspaper that serves the St. Louis-area African-American community.
Missouri Lawyers Media publishes several legal newspapers in the state, including Missouri Lawyers Weekly.