Dana Cutler

James W. Tippin & Associates

With more than 30 years in the practice of law, Dana has served in several positions of bar 
leadership during her career, including being the first woman of color elected as President of The 
Missouri Bar, in 2016. Her numerous bar-related awards include the 2020 Eighth Circuit Richard 
S. Arnold Award for Distinguished Service; three President’s Awards from The Missouri Bar; a 
President’s Award from the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association; the Ronda F. Williams 
Spirit of Diversity Award from; and the Sly James Diversity and Inclusion Award, just to name a 
few. She has been recognized as one of the Top 30 Education Law attorneys in the State of 
Missouri; a Missouri Super Lawyer since 2014 and was honored as the 2018 Woman of the Year 
by Missouri Lawyers Weekly at their Annual Women’s Justice Awards Luncheon. Dana has tried 
more than twenty bench and jury trials. 
She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with honors, from Spelman College in 
Atlanta, Georgia, and her J.D. degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
When not practicing law, Dana, along with her husband and law partner Keith Cutler, are co-hosts 
on a nationally syndicated daytime television courtroom show “Cutlers Court” which premiered
September 2023 after serving three years as co-judges on the two-time Emmy-nominated, 
nationally syndicated daytime television courtroom show “Couples Court with the Cutlers” which 
can still be seen on YouTube and other streaming services.