Joseph E. McKinney
Visiting Professor of Law
"For many years I have been interested in the process of educating professionals, whether aviators, accountants or lawyers. Professionals have a particular challenge: they must acquire and maintain the intellectual knowledge which their professions demand while applying that knowledge to their clients' practical situations as efficiently and economically as they can - and this is no easy task. This marriage of the intellectual with the practical is what I find particularly interesting. When Washburn University School of Law afforded me the chance to participate in its mission of educating lawyers - first as an adjunct professor of law and later as a visiting professor - I was very happy to do so."
J.D., Washburn University School of Law, 1986
Penny Fell
(785) 670-1669
Office 301
Law and Accounting
Law and Finance
Taxation of Corporations & Shareholders
Professor McKinney recently (2004) retired from the Topeka, Kansas law firm of Goodell, Stratton, Edmonds & Palmer, L.L.P., having practiced for 18 years, chiefly in the areas of tax and estate planning. Prior to his graduation from Washburn University School of Law in 1986, he worked as a certified public accountant with both local and national public accounting firms from 1974 through 1985, primarily engaged in tax practice.
Professor McKinney served in the United States Air Force from 1961 to 1965 as a medical corpsman. While in the Air Force he completed his undergraduate degree studies at Washburn University. He returned to Washburn in 1971 to secure a business and accounting education he was named the university's Kansas CPA Scholar.
Professor McKinney holds commercial pilot and flight instructor certificates. He flew professionally for several years and continues to actively teach primary and instrument flying.
