Rebekah Garrett

904-***-**** or 904-***-**** (mobile) • abnyex@r.postjobfree.com • 80 Amherst Place Ponte Vedra, FL 32081

Profile

• Lawyer/Author and Proofreader with expertise in criminal justice and family law.

• Certified case law editor, (via LexisNexis), who follows editorial guidelines to draft case law

summaries for legal professionals.

• Outgoing and dedicated Criminal Justice professor who teaches various law classes; develops

curricula; mentors students; executes projects; and designs online classes for two universities.

• Organized and effective Assistant Dean of Admissions for law school, with excellent marketing, recruiting, written and verbal communication skills.

Experience

Law Textbook Author/Writer • 2012-present

Anderson Publishing and Elsevier Publishing

• Contributing author of three new law school textbooks: Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and

Criminal Evidence.

• Wrote sections called “Court Case Resources and Exercises” for each chapter of all three textbooks.

Provide links to multimedia assets (audio, PDF, text, video) associated with landmark Supreme Court cases. Many links are of the auditory form as MP3s; thereby enabling the students to hear the exact arguments as they were presented before the United States Supreme Court.

• Wrote specific questions, each designed to encourage complex legal analyses from the students.

• Selected supplementary articles wherein students can see direct implications of each verdict.

Associate Professor of Criminal Justice • 2005 – 2011

A merican InterContinental University • Nashville, TN

• Designed law and criminal justice curricula as a Certified Subject Matter Expert (SME).

• Co-chairperson of the Criminal Justice Honors Society and served on the Faculty Retention

Committee.

• Taught the following classes: The Legal Aspects of Criminal Justice; Law and Evidence; Criminal

Procedure; Criminal Law ; Introduction to Criminal Justice; Probation and Parole; Business Law; and Online Business Commerce Law.

• Assisted with the university’s continuing educational programs for professors.

• Mentored at-risk students by providing individual tutoring and career counseling.

Adjunct Professor of Paralegal Studies • 2003 – 2005

University of North Florida • Jacksonville, FL

• Taught various classes, including: Criminal Law ; Criminal Procedure; Family Law; and Law Office

Management.

• Designed curricula for several courses, including online classes, for the university.

• Helped create the university’s online program.

• Wrote, designed, and taught the first two online courses offered by the university, using the media

platform Blackboard 6.0.

Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice • 2002 – 2003

Florida Community College at Jacksonville • Jacksonville, FL

• Taught Introduction to Criminal Law and Man, Crime, and Society.

• Assisted with the creation and implementation of a new military education program at college.

• Obtained security clearance to teach classes to Navy personnel on the naval base.

• Mentored students via tutoring and career counseling.

Certified Case Law Editor • 2001 – 2002

LexisNexis • Jacksonville, FL

• Researched, analyzed, and edited over 2,000 landmark legal cases.

• Wrote legal and procedural summaries of federal cases for online LexisNexis publication.

• Completed company’s goal for project: to streamline the way online legal researched is conducted. As a result, anyone researching federal case law via LexisNexis does not have to read each 10-120 page relevant case, as my team summarized each landmark case into a simple, one-page document.

Interim Assistant Dean of Admissions • 2000

University of Memphis School of Law • Memphis, TN

• Oversaw all marketing for the law school, including recruitment, personal interviews, law school

catalogues, online advertisement, and appearing as a guest speaker at various colleges throughout the

Southeastern United States.

• Counseled and interviewed prospective law students.

• Handled all financial aid requests and scholarships.

Gua rdian ad Li tem and Attorney • 1999

Memphis Child Advocacy Clinic • M emphis, T N

• Managed multiple cases and represented child abuse victims as their guardi an ad l item . In cases of

a lleged child abuse and/or neglect, I performed home visits; daycare investigations; interviewed

pediatricians, teachers, friends, and family members.

• Presented findings and made recommendations to the court based on legal standards of proof.

• Was also assigned young defendants in Juvenile Court. I interviewed, investigated, researched, and

p repared cases for court hearings.

E ducation

J u r is Doctorate • U niversity of Memphis School of Law • Memphis, T N • 2000

Bachelor of Arts i n English and Crimin a l Justice • I ndiana University • Bloomington, I N • 1995

P rofessional Activities

• L icensed Member of Florida Bar Association since 2002.

• Member of Florida Bar Association’s Criminal Law, Family Law, and Out-of-State Practitioners Divisions.

• Member of National Association of Professional Women (NAPW), American Society of Criminology,

C riminal Justice

P rofessionals of America, and Criminal Justice Consultants of America

• Textbook contributing Author and Reviewer for Jones & Bartlett Publishers’ Exploring Criminal Justice,

2nd Edit ion

• Legal Consulting in conjunction with my role as Ambassador to the Institute of European Studies, London

Campus.

• I nvited guest speaker and panel member, for nine years, at Culver Girls’ Academy’s annual Best Ethics and

Leadership Symposium .

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