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Paralegal Advisory Committee

Our Advisory Committees provide expert advice on a variety of issues to ensure that students earning degrees or certificates from JCCC are prepared to enter the workforce and become immediately productive.

Terry Becker
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
Litigation Support Consultant

Kedra Bennekin
Associated Wholesale Grocers
Associate General Counsel

Merrell Bennekin
Kansas City Police Department
Executive Director, Board of Police Commissioners Office of Community Complaints

Rachel Blankenship
MKQL Firm
Litigation Paralegal / KS- and MO-approved Domestic Mediator

Tonia Chambers
Foster Wallace, LLC
Paralegal Administrator

Mike Fischer
Payne & Jones Chartered     
Attorney

Breanna Francis
Olathe East High School, Civic Leadership Academy
Facilitator

Steve Howe
Johnson County District Attorney's Office
District Attorney

Stephanie Hutchison
Edward Jones
Financial Advisor, Market Growth Leader, and General Partner

Kelly Kolker
City of Lenexa Legal Dept.
Legal Assistant

Emma Lenz
Practice Group Assistant
Polsinelli PC

Adam Mauck
Stern & Mauck, LLC
Attorney

Serena Miller
Federal Public Defender's Office
Investigator

Andrea Nash
JCCC
Paralegal Student

Lees Patriacca
Polsinelli PC
Director of Paralegal Programs

Jason Purinton
Owner
Purinton Analytics, LLC

Burton Taylor
Spencer Fane
Chief Marketing Officer