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Adjunct Faculty

The Washburn curriculum is enhanced by area practitioners with expert knowledge and experience in specialized areas. These practitioners teach one or more courses per year either in a specialized substantive area or to small groups of students in trial advocacy.

* teaching Fall 2022 | ** teaching Spring 2023

Joseph W. Booth (**), Law Offices of Joseph W. Booth (website)
Collaborative Law; Financial Issues in Divorce

Derrick Carpenter (**), Client Executive, Sirius Computer Solutions (website)
E-Discovery

Ande Davis (**), Law Clerk, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas (website)
Federal Indian Law

Emily Donaldson (**), Partner, Stevens and Brand, LLP (website)
Elder Law

Shanelle Dupree (*), Kansas City Regional Director, Kansas Department for Children and Families
Children in the Law

David A. Fenley (**), Counsel, Dentons (website)
Law and Accounting

Christopher Gunn (**), Beck & Gunn Law Office, LLC (website)
Election Law

Emily A. Hartz (*), Of Counsel, Sloan Law Firm (website)
Domestic Violence

The Honorable Jacy J. Hurst (*), Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals (website)
Health Care Law and Policy

Steven A. Karrer (**), Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Kansas Attorney General
Trial Advocacy

Christina Kerls (**), Assistant Training Director, Kansas State Board of Indigents' Defense Services (website)
Trial Advocacy

Brittany Lauritsen (**), Director of Athletics, Bemidji State University (website)
Sports and the Law

Jared S. Maag (**), Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas
Criminal Procedure II; Fundamentals of Oral Argument

Glen McBeth (**), Instructional Technology Librarian, Washburn Law Library
Law Practice Technologies

Marcos A. Mendoza (*), Assistant Director, Legal & Regulatory Affairs and Coverage Counsel, Texas Association of School Boards, Inc.
Insurance Law

Creighton Miller (*), Research and Bibliographic Instruction Librarian, Washburn Law Library
Legal Research for Legal Scholars

Jonathon Noble (**), Chief Public Defender, Northeast Kansas Conflicts Office (website)
Trial Advocacy

Timothy O'Sullivan (**), Foulston Siefkin LLP (website)
Estate Planning

LeTiffany Obozele (**), Staff Attorney, Kansas National Education Association (website)
Trial Advocacy

The Honorable Carl William “Bill” Ossmann (* and **), District Court Judge, Shawnee County (Kansas) District Court (website)
Advanced Evidence: Expert Witnesses; Trial Advocacy; Trial Advocacy Competition

The Honorable Rachel Pickering (**), District Court Judge, Shawnee County (Kansas) District Court (website)
Fundamentals of Oral Argument; Moot Court

Joshua Pierson (**), Supervisory Trial Attorney, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Civil Rights Litigation

Rekha Sharma-Crawford (**), Sharma-Crawford Attorneys at Law (website)
Immigration Law

Jennifer Sheldon-Sherman (**), Career Law Clerk for the Honorable Duane Benton, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Gender, Sexuality, and the Law

Duston J. Slinkard (*), First Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas
Pretrial Advocacy-Civil

The Honorable Sarah E. Warner (**), Judge, Kansas Court of Appeals (website)
Conflict of Laws; Appellate Practice

The Honorable Teresa L. Watson (**), District Court Judge, Shawnee County (Kansas) District Court (website)
E-Discovery

Karen Wittman (*), Deputy District Attorney, Wyandotte County, Kansas (website)
Advanced Evidence: Expert Witnesses

Pretrial Advocacy-Civil Workshop (*)

  • The Honorable Lori D. Dougherty-Bichsel, District Court Judge, Shawnee County (Kansas) District Court (website)
  • Nicholas H. Jefferson, Assistant City Attorney, City of Topeka, Kansas (website)
  • Kathryn E. Sheedy, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas
  • Kelly J. Trussell, Chief of Prosecution, City of Topeka

Pretrial Advocacy-Criminal Workshop (**)

  • Skip Jacobs, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas (website)
  • Steven A. Karrer, Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Kansas Attorney General
  • Shannon Rush, Deputy District Attorney, Shawnee County, Kansas
  • Michael Serra, Assistant Solicitor General, Office of the Kansas Attorney General (website)

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