Prior
to returning to the State of Missouri, Chapel worked in Kansas City as a trial
lawyer at the Sly James Firm, at Humphrey Farrington and McClain, and with the
Missouri Attorney General.
Charnissa Holliday Scott
After
serving as a school district administrator for several years, Charnissa
Holliday Scott wanted to make a change in her life.
“I've always been interested in law,” Charnissa said. “A friend of mine who was an
attorney talked me into taking the LSAT, and I took it. And now I’m here and I'm looking at graduation in May 2011.” (I believe that this friend is Michelle Wimes)
Received a bachelor’s degree from Quincy University in
Quincy, Ill. and a master’s degree in Education and an Education Specialist
degree in Superintendent Administration from Avila University.
Broke KC charter school leaves teachers
without final paycheck
By MARÁ ROSE WILLIAMS
The Kansas City Star
Teachers at the recently shuttered
Derrick Thomas Academy charter school haven’t been paid, and no one seems to
know when — or if — they ever will be.
“There are limited, if any,
options that Derrick Thomas Academy has to help the teachers,” said James
Tippin, a lawyer representing the school. “Believe me, no one on the Derrick
Thomas board of directors is happy about this.”
Chapel and
one of the attorneys at James Tippin Law, Dana Cutler, worked at the Sly James law firm.
Dana
Cutler works at the Tippen Law Firm and is listed as contractor contact person
for the contract with DESE.
Featured
speaker will be Charnissa Holliday-Scott, a law student at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City School of Law who previously worked as a core data
specialist, interim director of exceptional education and compliance officer in
urban and suburban school districts.
SHB
Sponsors Jackson County Bar Association’s Foundation Scholarship Banquet By
Willie Epps, Partner, SHB Kansas City On September 11, 2010, the Jackson County
Bar Association and JCBA Foundation hosted the 13th Annual Kit Carson Roque, Jr. Scholarship
Banquet at the Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza. This annual banquet
celebrates the life and legacy of the late Judge Roque and promotes diversity
in the profession by providing scholarships to deserving minority law students.
This year, the JCBA Foundation solicited scholarship applications from the four law schools around Kansas City: UMKC, MU, KU, and Washburn. The scholarship selection panel included SHB Partner Jon R. Gray (retired judge), SHB alumna Judge Lisa White Hardwick, and Judge Brian C. Wimes. Scholarships were awarded to Sophia Washington of UMKC Law School, Camille Roe of MU Law School, and Charnissa Holliday-Scott of UMKC Law School. SHB Partner Mischa Buford Epps serves as president of the JCBA Foundation, which has awarded 30 scholarships since 1998.
The Individual Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was
re-authorized this year effective July 1, 2005. Under the guidance of legal
assistance provided by Attorneys Kathy Walter-Mack and Michelle Wimes, the
information found in this manual contains legal references that are current and
aligned with the changes that the new IDEA mandates. This Process Manual is
also in alignment with the State Plan for Missouri as it becomes finalized
according to the federal guidelines. (FROM KCMO school district handbook)
Michelle
Wimes worked as an attorney for KCMO school district. Charnissa Holiday-Scott
was an employee at KCMO school district. Judge Wimes was on the panel for the
scholarship that Holiday-Scott won. Holiday-Scott works for the law firm that
has the contract with DESE.
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