Charles J. Sticklen, Jr.

Charlie has over thirty years of experience handling personal injury cases, and in that time has secured over $100,000,000 for injured persons throughout Missouri. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended the University of Florida where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in 1988. He earned his Juris Doctorate Degree from the School of Law at the University of Missouri in 1991. His law practice has always been focused in the area of personal injury law, helping injured persons in Joplin, Columbia, and throughout Missouri secure their rights and gain just compensation.

While at the University of Florida, Charlie was an active member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity and served in several leadership positions as a member of the fraternity. He also enjoyed participating in intramural sports and volunteering at Gainesville's Ronald McDonald House. During law school at the University of Missouri, Charlie continued his passion for intramural sports by creating the law school intramural team, The Big Subpoenas. He was also a member of the Board of Advocates, Phi Alpha Delta professional fraternity, and the Moot Court Team.

Charlie has served as a guest lecturer in the University of Missouri School of Law's Advanced Torts class as well as in Mizzou's undergraduate honors program classes.

Charlie is the proud father of four Mizzou students: his oldest daughter, Sarah, is a 2018 graduate of Mizzou's School of Law - where she served as president of the Women's Law Association; his oldest son, Chance, is a junior communications major with an emphasis on Sports Broadcasting; his youngest daughter, Katie, graduated in 2021 from the Journalism School with a degree in strategic communications and also a degree in Women's and Gender Studies from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Katie also received her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin School of Law in 2024. Charlie's youngest child, William "Billy", graduated from Mizzou in 2023 with a degree in Psychology and is currently a law student at Mizzouu Law. After spending a year working for the firm,Stolzenberg, Gelles, Flynn & Arango in Miami, FL, Sarah returned to Missouri to be the managing partner at the Sticklen & Sticklen Law Office in Columbia, MO.

Charlie is currently licensed as an attorney in Missouri (since 1991). He is a current member of the American Bar Association, the Missouri Bar Association, the Jasper County Bar Association, the Boone County Bar Association, and the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys (MATA).