In an interview with Dave Sommers, Scott P. Moore admitted to him, “I’m incredibly humbled by this. I see the list of recipients from past years and see some men and women who have had a significant impact on my life and career. I think about that, and to be listed with them is pretty amazing.” In his words, he was a South Omaha Boy who grew up in South Omaha to a father who was a police officer for thirty years. He followed his eldest brother into college with the vision that he was going to be a doctor until a car accident and dealing with hospitals, and as a wheelchair user in the 1980’s brought him to think that, “there were, there were things that I could do more meaningfully there in the law that pushed me to law school.” 

It was in his second year of private practice when the urge to do more “affirmative civil rights work" overtook him, and he chased a job at the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, which he got. "I will never have a better job than that job, yeah, because it was so meaningful what we were doing, quite frankly, by the time the cases got to our desk, they had been through a lot of filters.” It was quite clear in the interview how driven by public service Moore is. When asked about his high frequency in community service and why it is important to him, he replied, 

“You realize really early that there's this pie, right? And everybody's trying to take that piece of the pie, and there's just not much of it. And if I participate more, that pie gets bigger, right? If I give my time, that pie gets bigger, like for all of those organizations out there that have a meaningful impact, and there’s…so much generosity in the city.” A city that is certainly fortunate to have the practice of Scott P. Moore, recipient of the Omaha Bar Association's Robert M. Spire Public Service Award Initiated in1983, it is presented to attorneys who have significantly enhanced the public’s knowledge of the legal system, who have also focused on providing services to the community other than pecuniary profits, and who have also demonstrated long term commitment to the enhancement of the public’s knowledge of the law. 

Ever focused on Omaha, he added in the interview, “The one thing I realized when I was at the DOJ is how prepared I was, which was a reflection on Creighton law school, yeah?... Then to come back here into this great, great legal community, this great place to practice.” 

With this year’s theme, “The Rule of Law and the American Dream,” Scott Moore has worked ardently over the years to protect fair housing and those who live with disabilities – one would be hard pressed to find a better quote than what he said about receiving the award, “I say this with deep sincerity. I just feel so blessed that, you know, I feel like lightning in a bottle. I mean, you know, where does a kid that goes to South High and Kearney State uses, you know, uses a wheelchair, getting to do what I do? It doesn't happen, right? You know, only in America, as they say, right? But just blessed to be.”