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Melissa Price Smith

Melissa Price Smith

Democratic · Missouri · 2026 · Incumbent

Running for Prosecuting Attorney, Missouri

Top priorities

From other published sources

  • Focus prosecutions on violent crime, per STLPR
  • Pretrial support services as alternatives to incarceration, per STLPR
  • Managing the office through county budget cuts, per STLPR
Biography

The county's prosecuting attorney since her late-2024 appointment to succeed Wesley Bell, after 18 years in the office, per STLPR. She says her focus on violent crime includes no longer seeking probation-only sentences for gun crimes, paired with pretrial job training and anger management alternatives, per STLPR.

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