Ashley Madison Customers Revealed: Missouri Attorney Robert M.N. Palmer, Head of Springfield Metropolitan Bar, is Paying Customer at Extramarital-affair Web Site

Robert M.N. Palmer
(From LinkedIn)

The president of the bar association in Missouri's third-largest city is a paying customer of the Ashley Madison (AM) extramarital-affair Web site, records show.
Robert M.N. Palmer, who has practiced law in Missouri for 34 years, was installed as president of the Springfield Metropolitan Bar in January 2016.
Palmer started a solo law practice in 1990, and it since has morphed into the Law Offices of PalmerOliver, with offices at 431 S. Jefferson (Suite 120) in Springfield.
Has Palmer enjoyed a successful legal career? It sure sounds like it. From his bio at the firm Web site:

Robert M. N. Palmer has represented clients in complex litigation in over 60 jury trials as lead attorney in over 34 states. He has obtained verdicts and judgments for his clients in excess of $100,000,000, including a verdict in Missouri for $21,000,000. He is currently President of the Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association; past-President of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys; past-President of Attorneys Information Exchange Group; a Certified Civil Trial Advocate of the National Board of Trial Advocacy; certified as a Super Lawyer (Missouri and Kansas); ranked as one of America's Top Lawyers; AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell (over 15 years); member of the American Association of Justice, American Board of Trial Advocates and International Society of Barristers. He received the 2009 Orrin G. Hatch Distinguished Trial Lawyer Award from Brigham Young University. He lectures nationally to bar and professional trial associations on numerous topics including pretrial-discovery, evidence, use of experts and focus groups, and preemption. He has published numerous articles in national trial magazines.

With all of that going for him, why is Palmer messing around at Ashley Madison? That's hard to say, but public records indicate he's had some rocky times on the personal front.

Brent Bothwell Palmer
(From Facebook)

He married Susan Marie Schmucker in 1975, and they divorced 10 years later. He then married Brent Bothwell Palmer, and they have three children--Joshua Daniel Palmer, Samuel Lester Bothwell Palmer, and William Stuart Bothwell Palmer.
Brent Bothwell Palmer filed for divorce in 1994, but the parties reconciled, and the case was dismissed.
We twice contacted Robert Palmer, seeking comment for this post. He did not respond to our queries.
Palmer is the son of the late Bob Palmer, an award-winning editorial cartoonist for almost 40 years with the Springfield News-Leader.