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Melissa Price Smith

Democratic · Missouri · 2026 · Incumbent

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Prosecuting AttorneyMissouri · 2026St Louis County sample ballot

Top priorities

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

Per the 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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