Myia McKenna

Myia McKenna is a Columbia, Missouri family law attorney at McKenna Family Law, LLC, with more than 20 years of experience handling domestic relations matters. Her practice includes dissolution of marriage, post-dissolution matters, legal separation, modifications of custody and support orders, paternity actions, and other family law disputes. She also assists clients with legal issues affecting same-sex couples. After practicing with established firms in Kansas City and St. Louis, she returned to Columbia in 2011 and founded her own family law practice there in Missouri.

Myia earned her B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Missouri in 1999, studying psychology, political science, and Spanish, with a minor in sociology. She received her J.D. from the University of Missouri Columbia School of Law in 2002. Her academic background combined social sciences, language study, and legal training before she entered practice. That education prepared her for a career focused on family law, client counseling, negotiation, and resolving sensitive domestic relations matters through careful legal analysis. matters.

Myia spent nine years practicing family law with established law firms in Kansas City and St. Louis after completing law school. That experience provided training and mentorship before she returned to her native Columbia in 2011. Her work now centers on divorce, custody and support modifications, paternity actions, legal separation, post-dissolution issues, and related domestic relations matters. She brings long-term family law experience to cases involving changing family circumstances, court orders, parental rights, and other personal legal concerns for clients.

Myia McKenna was admitted to the Missouri Bar in 2002 and the Kansas Bar in 2003. She is a member of the Boone County Bar Association and has served on its Executive Committee. She currently chairs the association’s Family Law Committee and remains active in other legal and professional organizations. Her prior affiliations include the Eastern Jackson County Bar Association and the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. She continues serving clients and the Columbia community through family law practice.

Law Office Affiliations

• Founder, McKenna Family Law, LLC
• Member, The Missouri Bar
• Member, Kansas Bar Association
• Member, Executive Committee and Chair, Family Law Committee, Boone County Bar Association
• Past Member, Eastern Jackson County Bar Association
• Past Member, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis

Licensed State

• Missouri
• Kansas

Education

• University of Missouri Columbia School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Missouri
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Major: Interdisciplinary Studies in Psychology, Political Science and Spanish, minor in Sociology

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