Donald Carmody, founder of Clayton-based law firm Carmody MacDonald PC, dead at 79 - St. Louis Business Journal - St. Louis Business Journal

Donald Carmody, co-founder and long-time principal at Clayton-based law firm Carmody MacDonald P.C., died Sunday from cancer. He was 79 years old.

“We are deeply saddened by Don’s passing. He will be greatly missed by everyone at our firm as well as his many friends and clients,” Jerry Carmody, his brother and law partner, said in a written statement. “In addition to being a great lawyer and mentor, Don built the firm by cultivating personal relationships and forming lasting friendships. He greatly influenced the culture of unity and dedication to excellence that is the core of our firm’s identity today.”

Carmody co-founded the law firm in 1981 with Leo MacDonald Sr., Jack Hilton and Tim Wolf. Since its founding, the firm has grown to become one of the largest single-office law firms in the St. Louis area with 85 employees, including 55 attorneys.

Carmody earned his bachelor of science degree from Spring Hill College in 1964 and his law degree in 1967 from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He concentrated his practice in business law, banking and finance, and real estate. Carmody served as lead counsel in many complicated real estate transactions and was the lead litigator in a variety of trial and appellate court cases.

For over a decade, Carmody appeared on the list of Best Lawyers in America, and in 2018 he received the inaugural ICON Award from Missouri Lawyers Weekly in recognition of his career and longstanding commitment to the Missouri legal community.

Carmody served as vice chairman of a Missouri banking corporation and was a past chairman of the Legal Issues Affecting the Disabled Committee of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. In the early 1980s, he received the St. Louis Grand Jury Good Citizenship Award for assisting police in apprehending a hit-and-run drunk driver who had struck a pedestrian.

Carmody was an ambassador with St. Louis Healthy Families and a board member of the Missouri Family Policy Council. He also was a member and past president of Michigan-based Legatus, an international association of high-level Catholic business leaders and laypersons exploring the intersection of faith and business. He was inducted into the Chaminade College Preparatory School Sports Hall of Fame in 2016 for his achievements as a student-athlete.

He is survived by his wife, Pat, three sons and three grandchildren.

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