Laura Denvir Stith (born October 30, 1953) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri.
On March 7, 2001, then-Governor Bob Holden appointed her to the Supreme Court of Missouri, and she was retained by a vote of the people at the November 2002 election.
[4] Stith is a founding director for Lawyers Encouraging Academic Performance ("LEAP") in Kansas City, where she lives with her attorney husband, Donald Scott, and their three children.
Her late father, Richard T. Stith, Jr. (October 31, 1919 – February 10, 2013), an insurance agent and financial planner, served as mayor of Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, from 1983 to 1987.
Her sister Kate Stith[1] is a law professor at Yale University, and the wife of Judge José A. Cabranes of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.