BUSINESS PERSONNEL: GRIMM EARNS SPURGEON SMITHSON AWARD

Judge Stanley Grimm of Cape Girardeau, a senior judge of the Eastern and Southern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals, has received a Spurgeon Smithson Award.

The Spurgeon awards are presented annually by the Missouri Bar Foundation to Missouri judges, teachers of law and lawyers deemed "to have rendered outstanding service toward the increase and diffusion of justice among men."

Since Grimm's retirement from the Court of Appeals in 1998, he has served as settlement judge for the Court of Appeals' Poplar Bluff and Cape Girardeau dockets. In addition he is active as a mediator and arbitrator.

Grimm is a 1954 graduate of Northeast Missouri State Teacher Collage and a 1959 graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law.

He was in private practice in Cape Girardeau from 1959 through 1972 when he was elected 32nd Judicial Circuit Court judge. He served until 1987 when he was appointed to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District.