In 2023, James C. (Jim) Owen retired as President and CEO of Missouri Employers Mutual after 13 years with the company. Owen joined MEM as a member of the Board of Directors in June 2010, later serving as the Chair of the Board and then Interim President and CEO from July to December of 2011.

Prior to MEM, he was a partner in the law firm McCarthy, Leonard, & Kaemmerer and spent more than 30 years representing various national insurance companies in the areas of insurance coverage, reinsurance, insurance insolvency, state and local taxation litigation, public pension, commercial and business law, and class actions. He was also his firm’s lead personal injury litigator. He is on various insurance boards, not-for-profit boards and associations, including the Missouri Supreme Court’s Appellate Practice Committee. He remains a member of the Missouri Bar.