BRENDA L. LEMER

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Mulvane, KS 67110 ad2e4g@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas

B.S. Criminal Justice December 2006

Honors: Graduated Summa Cum Laude

Dean’s List 2004-2006

Activities: Criminal Justice Association 2004-2006

Worked full time while attending school full time

Cowley County Community College Mulvane, Kansas

Associate Degree in Arts 1998

Honors: Dean’s List 1996-1998

President’s Scholarship Recipient – All Tuition Paid

Phi Theta Kappa

WORK EXPERIENCE

Sedgwick County Public Defender Office Wichita, Kansas

Legal Assistant (April 2022-Present). Provided legal assistant support for six attorneys who each handled a caseload with a variety of criminal offenses ranging from low level felonies to off grid felonies; entered data and information and helped maintain calendars for those attorneys; requested and obtained drug and alcohol evaluations, offender evaluations, and psychological evaluations; visited with clients whether in or out of custody to obtain personal intake information; attended court hearings up through and including jury trials to provide support for attorneys; assisted investigators in compiling mitigation evidence on behalf of clients

Honorable Kevin O’Connor Wichita, Kansas

Administrative Assistant (June 2015-February 2022). Prepared various documents in preparation for jury trials, assisted with coordinating jurors, prepared jury instructions and other trial related documents for Judge; communicated by phone and emails with members of the legal community including the Sedgwick County Adult Detention Facility, the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office, the Sedgwick County Public Defender’s Office, and all other private counsel about daily court dockets and scheduling court appearances; reviewed and analyzed court documents related to protection from abuse and protection from stalking docket.

State of Kansas Wichita, Kansas

Trial Court Clerk II At Sedgwick County Courthouse (December 2012-June 2015). Performed variety of clerical duties including scanning and indexing of confidential information for the general public, attorneys, and judges; assisted the general public with concerns and questions they had ranging from jury summons to process for filing documents; assisted colleagues in jury assembly room in preparing for order-in-aid dockets.

Grene Vision Group Wichita, Kansas

Office Manager (February 1998-October 2008) Supervised daily operations of optometric office, managed employees and patient care, conducted weekly staff meetings, developed employee work schedules, addressed complaints to ensure patient satisfaction, performed quarterly inventory, responsible for daily receipt reconciliation reports, posted customer payments and charges, and conducted employee evaluations.

RELEVANT SKILLS

Proficient with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, Windows applications