Hall of Fame
Alisha O’Hara is an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney in the Clay County, Missouri Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. She graduated from Mizzou in 2004 with a B.A. in Psychology and while attending, Alisha volunteered with Legal Aid of Mid-Missouri, Mid-Missouri Crisis Hotline, and Missouri State Public Defender system. She then attended law school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where earned her Juris Doctor in 2007 and began working at the Public Defender’s office.
In 2010, she accepted employment in Clay County and is the supervising attorney for the child support division.
In 2017, Alisha worked to start the county’s first Parenting Court, a program helps non-custodial parents owing child support find employment, receive treatment for substance abuse and mental health issues, and help to re-establish relationships with their children. Alisha formed community partnerships with the following agencies to provide this program at no cost to the citizens of Clay County: Connections to Success, BraveHearts, Northland Dependency Services and Tri-County Mental Health.
Alisha is a member of Gladstone Rotary where she chairs Kansas City Days. She also volunteers as the Be SMART lead for the Northland chapter of Moms Demand Action where her role is aimed at working to reduce suicides and unintentional shootings when children get a hold of unsecured firearms. Alisha is an adjunct professor at Missouri Western State University.
While at Oak Park, Alisha was involved in Leadership, choir, Young Life, Campaigners, lettered in both cross country and track and graduated with honors.
