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JOY
K. SMUCKER, J.D.
Business Division Chair
and
Paralegal Department Faculty
Highline Community College
2400 South
240th St.
Mail Stop 29-3
Des Moines, WA 98198
(206) 878-3710 x3856 Fax: (206) 870-4850
E-mail:
jsmucker@highline.edu
Professional Associations
Washington State
Bar Association
WSBA Access to Justice Conference
Planning Committee
Washington Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys
Joy Smucker, J.D., is the chair of the Business Division at
Highline Community College, located in Des Moines, Washington, 15 miles
south of Seattle, Washington. Prior to her election to the chair
position, Joy was the department coordinator of the Paralegal Department
and the Business Information Technology Department. Both of these
departments are located in the Business Division. She received her J.D.
from the University Of Puget Sound School Of Law in 1978 and she has
taught in the paralegal program at Highline Community College since
1994.
Joy
has taught Civil Litigation, Legal Research and Writing, Criminal Law,
International Human Rights Law and Ethics. She has been a strong
advocate for alternative teaching methods that are more inclusive and
responsive to a variety of different learning styles. She is
particularly interested in the challenges and rewards of teaching in a
classroom with a range of abilities and backgrounds. Some of the
pedagogical tools that she is most familiar with include coordinated
studies and interdisciplinary instruction, learning communities, service
learning and outcome based projects.
In 1998 Joy was awarded a grant to develop a
course on International Human Rights law. She has taught this course
for several years and has further designed a component to the paralegal
curriculum called Legal Issues of Diversity/Globalism. As a result of
these initiatives, she now serves on the Diversity/Globalism committee
at Highline and teaches part time in the Culture, Gender, Global Studies
department.
Joy
is an attorney, licensed to practice law in the State of Washington and
in the Federal Courts. Prior to her tenure at Highline she was a trial
attorney and the training coordinator for the Seattle-King County Public Defender's
Association. She has also worked in a private law firm that
specialized in
personal injury law and family law.
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