University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

The urban public law school with a small liberal arts feel

The Inns of UMKC Sandford B. Ladd (1844-1936)   Sandford B. Ladd (1844-1936) Sandford B. Ladd was born on September 11, 1844, in Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1865 with a degree in Classics and moved to Kansas City soon after to pursue a career in law. He studied law at the offices of Douglas & Gage for a year before forming a partnership with John C. Gage in 1869. As an attorney he served as special counsel for the state of Missouri in the Rail Road Rate cases, counsel for the Kansas City Board of Education for more than 30 years, and president of the Kansas City Bar Association and the Missouri Bar. During the Cleveland administration he was appointed as United States Minister to Russia. Not only a founder of the law school, he was also among the founders of the Kansas City Bar Association in 1884 and served on its admissions committee which fought to raise state bar standards. He served as Bar president 1892-1893. At the Kansas City School of Law he lectured on Real Property.