RWB Keith M. Bail Senior Grand Marshal Appointment

RWB Keith M. Bail Appointed Senior Grand Marshal

After his election, Grand Master-elect Barry Cundiff announced that the 200th Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of Missouri would be held at the Holiday Inn Executive Center in Columbia, Missouri on September 27th and 28th, 2021, beginning at 9:00 AM. He then announced that RWB Keith M. Bail, a 37-year member of Wallace Lodge 456 in Bunceton, MO would be his appointment at Senior Grand Marshal. He was Worshipful Master there in 1987 and 2012. He is a 32° KCCH member of the Scottish Rite - Valley of Columbia, 34-year member of Ararat Shrine Temple, Truman Club and Missouri Lodge of Research member. He was on the Board of Directors of the Masonic Home of Missouri from 2013 to 2017, where he was Board Secretary for two years and Chairman of the Administrative Committee. He is current Chairman of the Grand Lodge Appeals & Grievances committee from 2015 to 2020 and was Junior Grand Marshal from 2019 to 2020 and Grand Chaplain from 2016 to 2017.

RWB Bail lives in Boonville, MO and has been married to his wife, Cathy for 24 years. Cathy is a claims adjuster for Shelter Insurance in Columbia, MO. They have 2 sons, Landon and Carson. Landon has been a Master Mason since March 2017 and is a member of the Army Reserves and a Senior at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Carson is a 2020 graduate of Boonville High School and is starting a career in construction and works part time at Midway USA.

Keith is a member of St. John’s United Church of Christ in Billingsville, MO, Boonville Rotary Club, Friends of Historic Boonville and Boonslick Habitat

RWB Keith M. Bail

for Humanity. Keith’s hobbies are working on the family farm, biking and exercising at the local YMCA,

He is a graduate of Boonville High School, receiving a State Farmer FFA degree; 1984, graduate of University of Missouri - Columbia receiving a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics. After briefly working in finance, he graduated from University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law. A member of the Missouri Bar, he clerked for the late Honorable Robert W. Berrey, Missouri Court of Appeals Western District, Kansas City MO. He has worked as an Attorney, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney and since 2007, is currently Associate Circuit Judge in Cooper County, MO.