Résumé

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

  • Lawyer: Missouri; Kansas (Inactive); U.S. Supreme Court; Various federal district & appellate courts

  • College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Fellow

  • National Academy of Arbitrators

  • American Bar Assn.: Section of Labor & Employment Law; Section of Dispute Resolution; Section of Civil Rights & Social Justice

  • LERA Chicago, Rocky Mountain, & Northwest Chapters

  • Missouri Bar ADR & Labor & Employment Law Committees

  • Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, ADR, Federal Courts, and Labor & Employment Law Committees

EDUCATION:

  • University of Kansas (B.A., English & economics, 1982; J.D., 1985)

  • Missouri Rule 17 Mediator Certification (University of Missouri School of Law, 2013)

  • Family Law Mediation Certificate (Johnson County Community College, 2018)

ARBITRATION/LABOR RELATIONS EXPERIENCE:

  • Assistant Regional Attorney, United States Department of Health & Human Services (1985-1986)

  • Associate, Jolley, Walsh, Hager & Gordon (1986-1991)

  • Bonney Law Office (1991-2008)

  • Arbitrator - part time (Sept. 1, 2008, until May 31, 2018, while engaged in a non-labor & employment litigation practice as Legal Director of the ACLU of Kansas/Western Missouri)

  • Arbitrator - full time (since June 1, 2018)

ARBITRATION ROSTERS:

  • American Arbitration Association (Labor Panel & Panel of Employment Arbitrators)

  • Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

  • FINRA (2018-2024)

  • Kansas Public Employee Relations Board

  • Montana Board of Arbitration

  • National Mediation Board

  • Oregon Employment Relations Board Panel of Arbitrators and Factfinders

  • Washington Public Employment Relations Commission

PERMANENT PANELS:

  • Ameren Illinois & IBEW L.U. 51

  • AT&T Mobility LLC & Communications Workers of America (CWA) District 7

  • NECA-KC & IBEW L.U. 124 (Repeat Discharge Arbitrator)

  • Rocky Mountain Power & Utility Workers Union of America, Local 127

  • Southwest Airlines & IAMAW Air Transport District Lodge 142 System Board of Adjustment

  • State of Alaska & Public Safety Employees Association

  • UPS & Teamsters Local 705 (Discharge Panel)

  • UPS & Teamsters Local 710 (Discipline Grievance Committee)

  • USDA-Food Safety Inspection Service & AFGE (Springdale District)

  • U.S. Postal Service & National Postal Mail Handlers Union (2018-2020)

PUBLICATIONS:

  • The Case of the Dozing Decider: Tips for Dealing with a Napping Neutral, 35 ABA Lab. & Emp. L.J. 449 (2021)

  • Labor Arbitration in the Time of Coronavirus: Who’s Ready for Video Hearings? (May 2020)

  • Arbitration is Here to Stay: Know How to Prepare and Present Your Best Case, 75 Missouri Bar Journal 176 (July-Aug. 2019)

  • “Opening Statements: To Reserve or Not to Reserve – That is the question,” 18 Mich. Lab. & Emp. Law Notes 11 (Summer 2008)

  • Contributing Author, The Fair Labor Standards Act (BNA Books 1999) (Ch. 10-B, “Principles for Computing Overtime Pay”)

  • The University Campus as Public Forum, 81 UMKC L. Rev. 545 (2013)

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Fifty Years of Freedom, J. Kan. Assn. of Justice (July 2014) [reprinted in The Prairie Barrister]

  • Democracy’s Rainbow: The Long Ascent and Rapid Descent of Voting Rights in Kansas, 25 Kan. J. L. & Pub. Pol. 347 (2016)

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