LOUIS BODNAR

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Broken Arrow, OK 74012

Cell: 918-***-**** E-Mail: adodxs@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

Since I left my employment in public school education due both to the current uncertainty nationally as a result of the ongoing pandemic malaise and the deterioration of public-school student discipline, the ideal full-time employment will allow me to use my extensive educational, work ethic and life experiences to benefit my employer and my family in any administrative office position.

Having retired in 2007 from a Dallas, Texas law firm, after more than thirty years of active law practice in Oklahoma, Washington, D.C. and Texas, I returned home to be with my family. Since then I have been in education full time teaching, as I have Oklahoma secondary school teaching certificates in United States, Oklahoma and World History; U.S. Government; Economics; and World Geography, such certification current to June, 2025. In addition, while practicing law full time, I taught Business Law at the university level and paralegal courses at junior and community colleges in two states in the evenings for over five years.

Therefore, and also, the ideal full time private secondary school, college and/or university teaching position will allow me give back for the exceptional opportunities and incredible freedom our great nation has provided and make a real difference in this rapidly transforming world one student at a time.

Work Teaching Experience – since April 2007 – Full Time

Teacher/ISP (In School Probation) Supervisor – Glenpool High School (GHS)

August 2008 – November 2020

In School Suspension Supervisor responsible for discipline and school work of all students assigned to in school probation for disciplinary reasons.

Morning/Cafeteria Daily Detention Supervision. Also Testing Proctor and classroom substitute supervision.

2nd Trimester 2011 teaching assignment for teacher on childbirth leave teaching Oklahoma History, Government, World History and AP Geography

Substitute Teacher – Jenks Public Schools – Full Time

May/August 2007 – August 2008

2nd Semester – 2008 – Jenks High School – Full time ISP Supervisor

Summer School Teacher – Jenks High School – June/July, 2008 – Taught summer school classes in Oklahoma History and Government – reason for leaving: start full time at GHS

Previous Teaching Experience – Pre-2007

1990—1995 – University of Texas at El Paso-Adjunct Professor teaching Business Law in evenings

1990—1995 – El Paso Community College teaching paralegal courses in the evenings

1980—1982 – Oscar Rose Jr. College, OKCity, first teaching paralegal courses, then 1982 Head Paralegal Dept.

Work Experience – since April 2007 – Part time and Summer

Summer School Teacher – Jenks High School – June/July 2008

Taught summer school classes in Oklahoma History and Government – Reason for leaving: Start GHS

Deli Department – Reasor’s Jenks, OK – Summer 2009 – Reason for leaving: back to full time at GHS

Desk Clerk – Days Inn Motel – May 2010 – June 2010 – Reason for leaving: Employed by Harold’s Inc. Utica Square

Harold’s, Utica Square – Sales Associate – summer and part time during school. Reason for leaving: Harold’s Inc. Bankruptcy

Barnes & Noble – Bookseller – Part time and evenings and weekends – March 2011 – October 2011

Reason for leaving: accepted full time 2nd trimester teaching assignment at GHS shown above.

Professional Legal Practice Experience – Pre-2007

March 2004 – February 2007 – Brice, Vander, Linden & Wernick (BVLW), Dallas, Texas

Commercial Examiner Manager of Title Examination Department law firm specializing in mortgage banking, foreclosure and bankruptcy in a five-county Dallas/Ft. Worth metropolitan area. Reason for leaving: retired and returned home to Oklahoma.

January 2003 – February 2004 – American Title Insurance Corp. (ATIC), Mesquite, TX

Commercial and Residential Examiner preparing title insurance binders for major real estate commercial and residential development projects in five-county Dallas/Ft. Worth metropolitan area. Reason for leaving: employed by BVLW.

March 2002 – December 2002 – The Zizman Law Firm, Downtown Dallas, Texas

Commercial litigation counsel of boutique downtown Dallas law firm representing multi-state title insurers and real estate developers. Reason for leaving: employed by ATIC.

August 1987 – March 2002 – Bodnar & McDonald, Lawyers, El Paso, Texas

General civil and criminal law practice including military and family law, adoptions, wills and trusts, Code of Military Justice, felonies, misdemeanors and capital cases

Associate Municipal Judge for the City of El Paso, Texas

Special Prosecutor for Steve Simmons, District Attorney, 65th Judicial District, El Paso, Texas, in Maury Kemp insurance fraud case.

University of Texas at El Paso – Adjunct Professor teaching Business Law in the management department in the evenings.

El Paso Community College – Adjunct instructor teaching various paralegal courses in the evenings.

Left El Paso in March 2002 and relocated to Dallas, Texas.

May 1971 – July 1987 – Law practice in Oklahoma and Washington, D.C.

Legal intern, associate, and then partner, Miller, Wilson, Adams & Spencer, Lawyers, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from May 1971 to July, 1978.

Senior partner, Bodnar, Williams & Boren, Attorneys, Oklahoma City, OK from July 1978 to January 1982.

Of Counsel, Wilkes, Artis, Henrick & Lane, K Street, Washington, D.C. from January, 1982 to December, 1984. Also attended Georgetown Law Center in the evenings and accumulated nine (9) semester hours in the LLM candidate in the International and Comparative Law Master’s program.

Sole practitioner, Louis J. Bodnar, Attorney, Oklahoma City, OK from December, 1984 to December, 1985

Interim CEO Medical Center State Bank, Oklahoma City, OK from December, 1985 to August, 1987.

Relocate from Oklahoma City to El Paso, Texas in August, 1987.

Education

Oklahoma University College of Law, Norman, OK; Juris Doctorate – May, 1972

Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. LLM Candidate-Int’l. and Comp. Law -- 1984

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; Bachelor of Science-Business Administration with 2 minors: Political Science and Accounting – 1969

Lawton High School, Lawton, OK

Memberships - Former

Bar Association of the United States Supreme Court, Washington, D.C.

Federal Bar Association for Western District of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City

Federal Bar Association for the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, Denver, Colorado

Federal Bar Association for the Western District of Texas, El Paso, Texas

Texas Bar Association – 1988---2003 – Law practice in El Paso and Dallas, Texas

Oklahoma Bar Association – 1972 – 1997 – Law practice in Oklahoma City & Washington DC

Judgeship and Special Prosecutor

1989—2001 Associate Municipal Judge, City of El Paso, Texas

1990—1991 Special Prosecutor and Assistant District Attorney, El Paso County 65th Judicial District

Other

1987 Published “Sunbelt, a Novel” by Louis Bodnar, Quadrangle Press, Washington, D.C.

2018 Published “El Paso Sunrise, a Novel” by Louis Bodnar, Morgan James Publishing, New York, London

2021 Publish “El Paso Sunset, The Continuation Novel, Morgan James Publishing, New York, London

Personal

Married to Joan Carol Bodnar

Children: Son, Joey Bodnar and Daughter, Angela Bodnar Timmons

Grandchildren: Jacob (20), Bailey (19), Brady (18) and Logan (13)

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