Thomas C. Graves

Lee's Summit, MO

Thomas C. Graves is an employee benefits attorney from Kansas City, Missouri. He is a graduate of William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri (1957) and the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law (1960). He served in the U.S. Army Reserve from 1960 to 1987 in the Judge Advocate General's Corp, retiring as a Colonel. He was employed by the First National Bank of Kansas City as an employee benefits trust officer from 1964 to 1975. He was employed by the Meidinger (and later Mercer) employee benefits consulting firm from 1975 to 1984. He was an of counsel or partner of the Morrison & Hecker law firm from 1984 to 2002 and was a partner of the Stinson Morrison & Hecker law firm from 2002 to 2007 where he served as Vice-Chair of its Employee Benefits Practice Division. From 2007 to date Tom has continued to practice employee benefits law as a shareholder of Haynes Benefits PC, which has its office in Lee's Summit, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City. Tom is a member of the Missouri Bar. He has provided services for the Missouri Bar Staff retirement plans for thirty years (1980 to date). Tom has been a member of the American Bar Association (“ABA”) since 1982 and is Chair, Emeritus, of the ABA Tax Section's Employee Benefits Subcommittee, Military Leaves. He was an instructor for Certified Employee Benefit Specialist courses from 1981 to 1999 and has been active in other employee benefit organizations, including the American Benefits Council and the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists.

PBGC Issues

Multiemployer Plans

IRC Issues

Health and Welfare Plans

Exempt/Governmental Plans

DC Plans

DB Plans