University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

The urban public law school with a small liberal arts feel

Mary Kay O'Malley Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Child and Family Services Clinic; B.A. (St. Mary-of-the-Woods College); M.A. (University of Missouri-Kansas City); J.D. (Washburn University) email 816-235-6298 Vita Professor O'Malley obtained her B.A. from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College near Terre Haute, Indiana and her M.A. from the University of Missouri-at Kansas City. After working as a social worker for the Missouri Division of Family Services for 13 years she returned to school and graduated cum laude from the Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas where she was an editor on both the Washburn Law Journal and the ABA Family Law Quarterly. Following law school Professor O'Malley was employed as a prosecuting attorney at the Jackson County Family Court for six years. After leaving the court she was a partner with Raith & O'Malley P.C. focusing her practice in the area of juvenile and family law. Professor O'Malley has been the Director of the Child & Family Services Clinic and Associate Clinical Professor since 2002. Her other teaching assignments include the law school's Guardian ad Litem Workshop and she is the Legal Director of the Kansas City Youth Court program housed at the law school. Professor O'Malley is often appointed to serve as a guardian ad litem by judges of the 16th Circuit and continues representing juveniles and parents in juvenile court matters. She is a court-certified family law mediator and has authored Chapter 1, The Juvenile Office, and Chapter 9, Termination of Parental Rights, in the Missouri Bar Juvenile Law Deskbook.