REP. BRYAN P. STEVENSON

93rd General Assembly

Rep. Bryan Stevenson, a Republican, represents parts of Jasper and Newton counties (District 128) in the Missouri House of Representatives.  He was elected to the House in November 2002, Rep. Stevenson is an attorney in private practice with Stevenson Law Office PC.  He has been a practicing attorney since 1999 working in various law firms throughout the country, and also working as an intern in 1998 for Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson in Washington, D.C., preparing and reviewing legislation.

While serving his first term in the Legislature, Rep. Stevenson was awarded the Missouri Police Chiefs� Association 2003 Legislative Appreciation Award. He was also honored for his service to Missouri and the State�s judiciary for his legislative efforts. He was recognized for his leadership on important judiciary issues and for his work as the only freshman legislator member of the Commission on Children�s Justice. Representative Stevenson was given the Outstanding Legislator Award by the Missouri Association of Rehabilitation Facilities for his hard work as Chairman of the Interim Committee on Habilitation Centers.

Rep. Stevenson is a member of the Joplin Rotary Club, Joplin and Webb City Chambers of Commerce and a past member of the Jasper County Mental Health Tax Board.  He is a member of the Life Tabernacle Church. He was an adjunct professor at Missouri Southern State College from 2000 to 2002. He served as staff minister for the Calvary Pentecostal Church in Ft. Worth, Texas, and as youth director for the First United Pentecostal Church of Euless, Texas.

A graduate of Apostolic Christian High School, Rep. Stevenson received an associate in applied science degree in aviation technology from Tarrant County Junior College in 1989 and graduated cum laude with a bachelor of applied arts and sciences from the University of North Texas in 1995.  In addition to earning his Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center 1999, Rep. Stevenson received the Georgetown University Law Center Dean�s Certificate in recognition of special and outstanding service to the law center community as president of the Republican Legislative Student Association and Legal Society. Rep. Stevenson received his LLM/Masters in Tax Law from University of Missouri-Kansas City in December 2004.

Born August 6, 1969, in Fort Worth, Texas, Rep. Stevenson has traveled extensively in the United States, Israel, Germany, Poland, Belgium and Kenya.  He lives in Joplin with his wife Regina.