Matthew B Webster was born and raised in Joplin, Missouri. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri – Columbia in 1994 and attained his Juris Doctorate degree in 1997.  Matt has practiced law in Jasper County since passing the bar exam in the fall of 1997.

He is a member of the Jasper County and American Bar Association as well as the Missouri Bar Association, where he served a one year term as a member of the Young Lawyers Council and as the Missouri Bar Young Lawyers Representative to the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association.

Matt and Kerry were married in 1995 and two children, William, who was born in September of 1999 and Ashley who was born in March of 2007.  Matt is an avid outdoorsman with a love of hunting, fishing and camping.