Northern Illinois University
College of Law

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Jeanna L. Hunter serves as the Northern Illinois University College of Law Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Interim Director of Academic and Bar Success. After graduating from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale with both her Bachelor of Science and Juris Doctorate, Dean Hunter was a judicial clerk for the Illinois Appellate Court in the fifth and second district. The longest serving female faculty member at NIU Law, Dean Hunter has taught legal writing and advocacy, Legal Methods, Advanced Legal Analysis: Skills and Strategies, and Bar Fundamentals. She’s served as a coach for NIU’s ALA Moot Court Team and assisted as a brief grader and judge for the annual Mandell Moot Court Competition. She also coordinates the first-year and second-year Academic Success Programs. More recently she has assisted students at all stages of their academic experience as Associate Dean of Student Affairs. Since starting at NIU Law in 1993, Dean Hunter has spearheaded student-focused programs such as Jump Start and the summer Bar Prep course.

News

Activities

• Presenter, "The Front Line: Writing and the Bar Examination," Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference, UIC-John Marshall Law School, Chicago (September 2019) (with Meredith Geller).
• Presenter, "Yes, Virginia, there is Legal Writing on the Bar Exam: Teaching Writing and Bar Skills Together," Legal Writing Institute Workshop, University of Illinois College of Law (December 2018) (with Meredith Geller).
• Presenter, "Exit Laughing: Ideas for a More Fun, Productive Classroom," Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Presenter (September 2017) (with Meredith Geller, Sandra Kupelian and Jay Streitz).
• Panelist, Society of American Law Teachers, The John Marshall Law School and Northern Illinois University College of Law's "Breaking In: How to Become a Law Professor or Law School Administrator," Chicago, IL  (September 16, 2011).
• Co-presenter (with Therese Clarke Arado, Frank Lima, Elsa Miller and Meredith Geller), "Divided We Succeed: Teaching Legal Writing & Research as Separate Collaborative Courses," Central States Regional Legal Writing Conference, Milwaukee, WI (Oct. 2009).

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Publications

• Comment, Consent for the Legally Incompetent Organ Donor: Application of a Best-Interest Test, 12 J. Legal Med. 535 (1991).
• Note, Advertising - Supreme Court Upholds Attorney Statements of Certification in Advertising as Protected Speech, 15 S. Ill. U. L.J. 391 (1990-1991).