Anna Hawes joined Disability Professionals as a law clerk prior to passing the bar and is licensed in Missouri and Iowa. She completed a 2007 externship with the Missouri Public Service Commission, Office of the General Counsel, and served as a legal intern for Commissioner Robert Clayton III from 2007-08. Anna was a member of the Missouri Environmental Law and Policy Review from 2006-07 and participated in the 2007 Manfred Lachs Space Moot Court competition. She was on the MU advocacy team at the Jessup International Moot Court competition in 2006 and 2008 and acted as team coordinator in 2007. Anna spent six months studying at the Hochschule Bremen in Germany during her undergraduate studies. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in German Language & Literature from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is a 2008 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia, Mo.