The three full-time paralegal professors are attorneys and have been involved with paralegal education since the 1980s.

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Anita Tebbe

Facilitator/ Professor

Anita Tebbe received her Juris Doctor degree from Washburn University School of Law. She also has earned a Masters of Arts degree in Education and an undergraduate degree in history. Ms. Tebbe is licensed to practice law in Kansas. She is a member of the American Bar Association, Kansas Bar Association, and Johnson County Bar Association.

Her involvement with JCCC's Paralegal Program began in 1988. Before that time, she taught at the high school level and and at other colleges. During spring, 1996, Anita Tebbe worked as an intern for the Municipal Court of Overland Park, Kansas and the Small Claims Court of Johnson County, Kansas.

Among the awards that she has received are the JCCC Distinguished Service Award in 1993, 1995, and 1997. Ms. Tebbe is involved in the American Association for Paralegal Education, an organization comprised of over 300 paralegal programs throughout the United States. She has served on the board of directors and been editor of their quarterly newsletter, Sidebar, and their quarterly magazine, The Paralegal Educator. She was president of AAFPE from 1997 to 1998.

In 2004, Ms. Tebbe was appointed to the American Bar Association Approval Commission. In 2005, she was named Chair of the Approval Commission and a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Paralegals.

Ms. Tebbe is also the author of a book The History of Southeast Johnson County, Kansas. She was given the opportunity to write the book when she was on a 2004 sabbatical.

Among the legal organizations that Ms. Tebbe is involved in are

• Member of the Kansas Bar Association Legal Assistant Committee;
• Member of the Kansas Paralegal Association; Kansas City Paralegal Association; and Heatland Association of Legal Assistants;
• Member of the JCCC-Overland Park Mediation Advisory Board.

Norma Stratemeier

Professor

Earning two degrees from University of Missouri, Kansas City, Norma Stratemeier received a Juris Doctor degree and a Bachelor of Arts, history degree from that institution. She is licensed to practice law in Missouri. Ms. Stratemeier is a member of the Missouri Bar Association, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, and the Kansas City Association of Women Lawyers.

Joining the Paralegal Program in 1987, Norma Stratemeier came from a background in local government, private law practive, and part-time legal teaching. She served as Facilitator of the JCCC Paralegal Program from 1987 to 1990. Currently, she specializes in the teaching of Legal Research and Civil Litigation. Depending upon the particular semester, you may also find her teaching such courses as Intro to Law, Law Office Management, and Medical-legal Research and Writing.

Norma Stratemeier has published several articles about the paralegal profession, and has appeared as a speaker at various local and state paralegal association meeetings and seminars. She frequently performs critical reviewing of manuscripts for publishers of legal materials. In the fall of 1994, she interned for an attorney who specializes in litigation practice.

Jay M. Nadlman

Assistant Professor

Jay M. Nadlman received his Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in 1985, where he served as Comments Editor of the Law Review. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a member of the Missouri Bar.

Assistant Professor Nadlman joined Johnson County Community College as an adjunct professor in 2007. He is currently teaching Bankruptcy Law, Intellectual Property Law, Introduction to Law, Law Office Computing, Legal Research & Writing II, and Wills, Trusts and Probate Administration. Prior to joining JCCC he served as the Vice President, Associate General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Kansas City Southern. He began his legal career as a trial attorney working for Union Pacific Railroad Company in 1985.