Growing up in Montgomery City, Anthony Laramore had a mission to become an attorney someday.

“My hero was Jack McCoy from Law and Order,” Laramore said. “Definitely, my lifelong ambition was to be an attorney, so that’s definitely the case.”

So far, Laramore has plenty of legal experience, having his own practice for 12 years and currently working at Page Law in St. Louis. Recently, he earned his biggest achievement of his career – he was admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar.

Laramore received his acceptance letter from the U.S. Supreme Court. He became a member of the Bar of the Court and an officer of the Court, effective Jan. 21. He will be able to argue cases in front of the United States Supreme Court.

“I didn’t have any doubt that I would be admitted, but it was exciting to be admitted,” Laramore said. “It’s the highest court in the land. It’s nice to be a member of the bar association.”

Laramore said he has a case that was in the federal courts and went up to the Circuit Court of Appeals.

“The court is going to be deciding very shortly whether that case is going to come before the United States Supreme Court for an argument,” Laramore said.

Laramore will receive a certificate of admission in the mail soon. He will be able to sit in a reserved section of the Supreme Court now that he’s a member of the Bar.

“A very small percentage of attorneys ever become a member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar,” Laramore said. “The underlined case is an interesting case. It’s a civil rights case that has to be brought in federal court involving some misconduct by some police officers. Those types of cases are just not the types of cases a lot of lawyers in Missouri handle.”

Laramore applied for the Supreme Court Bar several months ago. He said there is a process for attorneys to get accepted into the Bar.

“There’s an application (to fill out) and you have to get some other attorneys that were also members of the Supreme Court bar to sort of vouch for you and stand for you,” Laramore said. “You have to give them some additional documentation that you have been a good lawyer for your time in practice and you didn’t have any professional discipline or anything like that from our state bar association.”

Laramore graduated from Montgomery County High School in 2003. He and his wife Kelly have six children.