Matthew Mueller

Attorney Matthew Mueller has worked to abolish debtors' prisons in Missouri and received the 2019 Rory Ellinger Award for Public Interest Litigation, "With appreciation for leadership in legal action to end municipal court practices that had created debtors' prisons." He has successfully argued cases to the Supreme Court of Missouri and has served as a member on the Missouri Task Force for Criminal Justice which helped to change Missouri's rules on cash bail and pre-trial detention. He recently worked for several years as the Senior Bond Litigation Counsel for the Missouri Public Defender Office.