The Downtown Rotary Club's luncheon programs stimulate, inform, and entertain in a grand and proud tradition. Live music brightens every meeting. Our podium has featured speakers including Ronald Reagan, Lamar Hunt and Barnett Helzberg. When our Mayor or other civic leaders need to get out an important message about current events affecting the future of Downtown and the Kansas City area, there is no better forum than the podium at Club 13.
This week we our proud to present:
  • Judge Fenner was born and raised in St. Joseph. He graduated from KU and in 1973 got his JD from UMKC. His first employ was four years with the City Attorney in St. Joseph. He practiced privately for two years and in 1979 became a Circuit Judge, then the Presiding Judge of the Fifth Judicial District through 1988 when he became Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals for eight years. He is now Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District where he has served since July of 1996. Judge Fenner holds many professional memberships at both the city and state level.

    Todd H. Bartels is an experienced trial attorney in the Polsinelli Shughart PC firm's Business Litigation Department. He is a former law clerk to the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Mr. Bartels has successfully handled a variety of complex civil litigation matters in federal and state courts and has tried numerous jury and bench-tried cases. His experience focuses on business litigation, including breach of contract, commercial fraud and shareholder disputes, antitrust, bankruptcy adversary proceedings, non-compete and trade secret litigation, and intellectual property litigation. He is the recipient of the "Up and Coming Lawyers" recognition by Missouri Lawyers Weekly, and received the 2011 "Future Litigation Star" award by Benchmark Litigation. Todd earned his Juris Doctor from the the University of Missouri, Columbia School of Law and received his B.A. in Accountancy from the University of Missouri, Columbia.




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