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Michael
Ferry
Executive Director, Attorney at Law
Juris Doctorate, New York University School of Law
Master of Arts, University of Illinois
Bachelor of Arts,
Washington University in St. Louis
Before
assuming his position as Executive Director of Gateway Legal Services in 1998, Michael Ferry served for 19 years as a staff
attorney, managing attorney, training and community education coordinator for Legal Services of Eastern Missouri.
Michael has a long record of involvement in community education
and continuing legal education. Since 1989 he has written Legally Speaking, a weekly column on legal questions for
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has also co-produced radio and cable television programs on legal topics, and has received
one national award and two St. Louis "Emmy" Award nominations for this work. He was also editor of Missouri
Consumer Law, 2nd ed., published by the Missouri Bar, and now serves as contributing editor for Consumer
Warranty Law, published by the National Consumer Law Center.
In 1994 Michael received the National Consumer Law Center’s
Vern Countryman Award for "outstanding efforts to strengthen and affirm the rights of low income Americans through the
practice of consumer law." He has served on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System (1993-1995). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Consumer Law Center, and as an adjunct professor
at Washington University School of Law. Earlier this year he was elected to the American College of Consumer Financial Services
Lawyers, the first lawyer from St. Louis to be so honored. He is currently a Consumer Fellow of the Uniform Commercial Code
Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, and before that was a Consumer Fellow of the Consumer
Financial Services Committee of the Business Law Section of the ABA. He is the only person ever to serve as a Consumer Fellow
for two ABA Business Law Section committees.
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