Nikki was born and raised in West Plains, Missouri, and graduated from West Plains High School in 2008. Two years before she graduated from high school, after her sophomore year and at the age of 15, Nikki took a summer job working for the law firm, where her Uncle, Lynn Henry, was the Senior Attorney. When the summer came to an end, Nikki was asked to stay on board, and she continued working at the office after school in the evenings, on holidays, and summer vacations throughout her junior and senior years of high school.
Upon graduating from high school, Nikki continued to work for the law office for the next four years while she worked her way through college. After obtaining her Associate's degree in 2009 from Missouri State University and her Bachelor’s degree in psychology and criminal justice from Drury University in 2012, and after having become the senior paralegal and trial assistant to Lynn Henry, Nikki decided to pursue a career as a trial attorney.
Nikki applied to and was accepted for admission to the School of Law at the University of Missouri in Columbia. In her first year of law school, Nikki won the Moot Court Competition as the Top Oral Advocate in her law school class and was chosen as the recipient of the Richard J. Chamier Award in Public Speaking. After completing her second year of law school, Nikki was selected by the Honorable Zel M. Fischer for a summer clerkship with the Supreme Court of Missouri. During her time in law school, Nikki also received Excellence Awards for the highest grade in her class in the subjects of Pretrial Litigation, Emotional Intelligence, and Insurance Law.
After graduating from law school in December 2014, passing the bar exam, and obtaining her license to practice law, Nikki was hired as an Associate Attorney with Henry & Williams, P.C. Less than 3 months after she was admitted to the bar, Nikki helped Lynn try a no-offer dangerous highway wrongful death case against MoDOT, which resulted in a record verdict of $6,700,000.
In 2023, Nikki was named a partner in the firm, ushering in the official name change to Henry, Williams & Kinder, P.C. in January 2024.
Nikki is a member of the Missouri Bar Association, the American Association of Justice, the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, and serves as the Vice President of the 37th Judicial Circuit Bar Association. She has also been admitted to practice in United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Nikki’s areas of practice are personal injury and wrongful death.
Nikki is married to Jordan Kinder, who is the Animal Health Specialist at Hirsch Feed and Farm Supply in West Plains. She and Jordan have two sons - Boden and Gentry.
