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Barbara Glesner Fines, '80
Associate dean for faculty development and professor at the
University of Missouri Kansas City, Barbara Glesner Fines,’80 focuses
her work on the connection between family law and professional ethics.
In addition to spearheading and contributing to the field of computer
assisted legal instruction, Glesner-Fines has also donated her talents
to low-income individuals and children. Her work in the Volunteer
Attorney Project of Legal Aid of Western Missouri has helped
low-income individuals gain the knowledge to represent themselves in
divorce, custody, and paternity cases. Her volunteer work has also
included representation of women incarcerated for domestic violence
and immigrants.
She currently serves as a member of the
Municipal Officials and Officers Ethics Commission and on the Ethics
Committee for Legal Aid of Western Missouri. She is founding member of
both the Kansas City Volunteer Attorneys for the Arts and the Kansas
City Regional Network for Battered Immigrants.
Some of her
awarded achievements include the University of Missouri Leadership
Development Program Award, the Tiera Farrow Faculty Award, and the
UMKC Elmer F. Pierson Award. She has also published two books. After
her time at Grand Valley State University, Glesner-Fines earned her
Juris Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1983 and then her
masters of law from Yale University of Law in 1986.
She and
her husband live in Kansas City, Missouri. The couple has four
children and five grandchildren.
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