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Mediation Training - Meet the Instructors
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Coordinator of Instruction
Kay Elkins Elliott, J.D., LL.M.
With more than 1200 hours of training, Kay Elkins Elliott brings to the classroom a wide range of knowledge in mediation and conflict resolution. An attorney and mediator for more than 30 years, she has litigated, arbitrated, or mediated over 1,800 cases to resolution.
Ms. Elliott maintains a private practice, Elliott Mediations, serves as ADR coordinator and adjunct professor at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, and is a founding member of the Texas Mediation Trainers Roundtable. Ms. Elliott is a board member of the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association, the only organization in Texas that offers credentialing to mediators. She served on the State Bar of Texas ADR Council, is co-editor of the Texas ADR Handbook, 3rd edition and writes a mediation column in the Texas Association of Mediators Newsletter and the TCAM Newsletter. She is a biographee in Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the World, a charter member of the Institute for Responsible Dispute Resolution, and the director of the Granbury Dispute Resolution Center.
Course Instructors
Frank Elliott, LL.B., is dean emeritus and professor at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law. He previously served on the faculty at the University of Texas School of Law and was dean at Texas Tech University School of Law. Mr. Elliott has been listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in American Law. He is a principal of Elliott Mediations, which provides mediation, arbitration, facilitation and training services. He is co-editor of the State Bar of Texas ADR Handbook, 3rd edition and West Texas Forms.
Linda Galindo, Ph.D., is a bilingual and bicultural clinical psychologist and mediator. Presently in private practice, she also serves as a management consultant and trainer and as adjunct clinical professor at UT Southwestern Medical School. A licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Clinical Psychologist, and Family Therapist, Dr. Galindo specializes in self-assessment and psychological instruments, family cases, early childhood intervention, and domestic violence.
James Gibson, J.D., is director of Students' Legal and Mediation Services at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville. He has trained more than 500 state mediators and mediated more than 800 hours. He is secretary of the Texas Mediation Trainers Roundtable and the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association. His text on criminal mediation has been adopted by the Texas Young Lawyers Association for training Texas attorneys and judges and he recently co-authored Capitalizing on Conflict.
Robert J. Matlock, J.D., has been in private practice since 1971. He served on the board of directors of the Dallas Bar Association Family Law section for three years and is a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers, the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists, and the Academy of Family Mediators. He is author/presenter of the Texas Marital Property seminars sponsored by Dispute Mediation Services, served on the board of directors of the Texas Association of Mediators and practices collaborative lawyering.
Suzanne Mann Duvall, J.D., practiced civil trial law from 1970 and completed 700 hours of training in alternative dispute resolution. She has mediated/arbitrated 1200 cases to resolution. She is past chair of the Texas Bar Association ADR Section, past president of the Texas Association of Mediators, a member of the Supreme Court Task Force on mediation ethics and chairs the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association.
Lillian Chenoweth, Ph.D., is a professor and former chair of Family Studies and Consumer Sciences in the department of Family Sciences at Texas Woman's University. Her specializations include: children and time, work and family interaction issues, consumer services, culturally responsive parenting education and communication skills.
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