Bringing People Together. Delivering Results.

All his life, Wesley Bell has worked to find solutions to problems big and small. Raised in North St. Louis County, Wesley is the son of a police officer and county civil servant. A proud graduate of Hazelwood East High School, he worked multiple jobs to put himself through college at Lindenwood University before earning his law degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law.

Wesley then returned to St. Louis as a public defender, where he witnessed firsthand the inequities in the criminal justice system. He went on to serve as a professor, a judge, and a prosecutor, and when protests erupted blocks from his own home in Ferguson in 2014, Wesley showed up, sometimes physically standing between protesters and police. He later partnered with the Department of Justice to reform the city's police and court systems. In 2018, Wesley challenged a 28-year incumbent for St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney and won. Leading Missouri's largest prosecutor's office, he created a gun violence task force that seized over 200 illegal firearms off our streets, and expanded diversion programs for non-violent offenders with a nearly 90% success rate.