David J. Dixon award winner, Brianne Thomas, focuses her practice on personal injury and workers’ compensation cases. She is a seasoned litigator and civic leader. Practicing law since 2006 she is now Managing Partner at Boyd Kenter Thomas & Parrish and is fulfilling the dream she envisioned at age eight when she told her parents she wanted to be a lawyer.She began her legal career as a clerk with Boyd & Kenter P.C., which led to an associate position. Having always been given the autonomy she desired and support she needed, Brianne, a self – described “ambitious, hard – working, loyal problem – solver,” grew into her current role as managing partner at Boyd Kenter Thomas & Parrish, LLC.Brianne is currently serving on the Board of Governors for the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys and the Executive Committee of Association for Women Lawyers (AWL) of Greater Kansas City. She volunteers for Jackson County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) which represents abused and neglected children in courts throughout Jackson County. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Rainbow Center, a non – profit organization that serves adults and children with developmental disabilities. From 2008 – 2012, she was elected by her peers to serve two terms on the Missouri Bar Young Lawyers Section Council. She also chaired Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association’s (KCMBA) Ross T. Roberts Trial Academy committee in 2011 – 2012.Brianne has been recognized as a 2015 Rising Star by KC Business Magazine and a Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyer “Rising Star” by Law and Politics Magazine for the past six years. She was voted “Best of the Bar” in 2013 and 2014 and has been recognized by The National Trial Lawyers as the “Top 40 Under 40.” In 2012, she won the President’s Award for achievement as a board member of the Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City (AWL).Specialties:Workers’ Compensation, Labor Law and Litigation, Civil Litigation