Jill Callahan Engle: Professor of Clinical Law, Director/Founder, Family Law Clinic
Pennsylvania State University School of Law- University Park
Phone: 814-863-3396 | Email: [email protected] | Twitter: @jillengle
LEGAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
PENN STATE LAW, 2007-present
Professor of Clinical Law
I direct the Family Law Clinic in our University Park location, which I opened in January 2010. Supervise 4
to 7 students per semester and one graduate fellow. Manage the 5-credit, one-semester clinical experience for
each student, including a weekly two-hour seminar with a strong theoretical and skills component. I also
teach a 3-credit upper-level Family Law course, direct our Public Interest and Pro Bono programs, and am redesigning our externship program, which I will manage starting Fall 2016. I was a member of our adjunct
faculty teaching the 3-credit Family Law course from 2007-2009.
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
PENN STATE COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATIONS: Adjunct Faculty, Media Law, 2002-2004.
WASHINGTON, D.C. SCHOOL DISTRICT: Marshall-Brennan Fellow teaching Constitutional Law to high
school students at Ballou High School, Anacostia, Southeast D.C. Team-taught with another law student,
using casebook by Prof. Jamin Raskin, American University Washington College of Law, 1999-2000.
EDUCATION: J.D., American University cum laude 2000;
B.A., Penn State University 1990
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"Taming the Tigers: Domestic Violence, Legal Professionalism, and Well-Being," 4 Tenn. J. Race, Gender &
Soc. Just. 1 (2015).
"Mandatory Reporting of Campus Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence: Moving to a Victim-Centric
Protocol that Comports with Federal Law," 24 Temp. Pol. & Civ. Rts. L. Rev. 401 (2015).
“Promoting the General Welfare: Legal Reform to Lift Women and Children in the United States Out of
Poverty,” 16 Iowa J. Gender, Race & Just. 1 (2013).
“Collaborative Law in Legal Education: No Time Like the Present,” 2 Penn State Yearbook on Arbitration and
Mediation 65 (2010).
“Confronting Domestic Violence,” The Pennsylvania Lawyer 30 (September-October 2012).
“Preparing for the Challenges of Child Witnesses,” 10 Children’s Rights Issue 39 ABA (2008).
PRESENTATIONS:
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS: Panelist for Clinical Community 2.0: Online tools to Build,
Expand, and Strengthen Clinician Support Networks Rancho Mirage CA May 1, 2015.
IGNITING LAW TEACHING 2015: PATHWAYS TO PRACTICE: Helping Your Law Students Find Their
Professional Identity Through Reflective Learning Best Practices in Legal Education Wash. DC March 2015
UNIV. OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF LAW: Keynote speaker for Taming the Tiger: Professionally
Representing Your Client in Domestic Violence Cases & Navigating Order of Protection Court Knoxville, TN Mar. 2015
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW Panelist for Symposium: VAWA [Violence Against
Women Act] at 20 - Where Do We Go From Here? Philadelphia, Pennsylvania November 8, 2014.
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW Panelist for Symposium: Student Life, Relationships & the
Law: Confronting Domestic Violence in Higher Education, Malibu, California October 10 -11, 2014
UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION
(UNESCO): Panelist for Symposium on Youth Civic Engagement and Leadership, Dublin, Ireland Aug. 28, 2014
LOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY: Keynote address for Sustaining Hope: Working Together to Change the Culture of
Domestic Violence, October 21, 2013.
ASSOCIATION OF CANADIAN CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE: co-presenter for
Fostering Professionalism and Reflective Practice in Clinics. October 18, 2013.
PENN STATE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW: Host and moderator for A Different Ending: Changing the
Domestic Violence Story, October 2, 2013.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS CLINICAL CONFERENCE: Panelist for CrossFertilization Comes in Many Colors: Diverse Clinical Strategies to Address Family Violence. May 1, 2013.
NATIONAL BLACK LAW STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION CONVENTION: Panelist and moderator for A
Family Affair: Courts, Law and Society’s Reaction and Re-Definition of the Familial Structure. March 7, 2013.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v. USA: Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights Finds U.S. Violation in Abuse Killings at the Update for Feminist Law Professors, Dec. 14, 2012.
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF COLLABORATIVE PROFESSIONALS: Panelist for on The
Emotions of Family Finances: Finessing Fear, Formulas and Fairness, October 21, 2012
PENN STATE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW: Panelist for Identity Crisis: Voter ID Laws and the 2012
Election, October 19, 2012
PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATION: Panelist for PBA Family Law Section Summer Meeting on “What
Family Law Attorneys Need to Know About Immigration: a Primer on U.S. Immigration Law with Focus on the Implications
of Love v. Love” July 13, 2012.
PENN STATE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW: Presented Ethics portion of Collaborative Law Basic
Training, Carlisle, Pennsylvania (via videoconference) October, 2011.
EARLE MACK SCHOOL OF LAW AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY: Panelist for Update for Feminist Law
Professors on Legal Reform to Lift Women & Children Out of Poverty, Philadelphia, January 28, 2012.
PENNSYLVANIA BAR INSTITUTE: Panelist on reproductive technology issues for Law Policy Forum
“Law on the Frontiers of Technology,” Philadelphia, October 2010.
CENTRE CO. (PA) BAR ASSOC.: Presentations on Family Law and Legal Education, 2004 to present.
SUNPOINTE HEALTH: Trained psychiatric and psychological professionals on custody evaluations, 2006
LEGAL WORK EXPERIENCE:
ENGLE KAUFFMAN, P.C., State College PA: Founding partner. Practiced family law, juvenile law, civil
rights and other civil litigation. Managed the firm’s marketing, staffing and strategic planning. 2004-2010.
MASORTI, SULLIVAN & ENGLE, State College PA: Associate. Practiced family & juvenile law. 2002-04.
HON. NEAL KRAVITZ, Washington, D.C. Superior Court: Law clerk working on civil, criminal and
landlord-tenant dockets, and family/juvenile law cases. 2001-2002.
LERCH, EARLY & BREWER, Bethesda, MD: Attorney working in litigation section. Summer 2001.
MORGAN LEWIS & BOCKIUS, Washington, DC: Attorney and law clerk working in litigation
department. Major civil rights case in federal court (research, writing, attending trial in Texas). 1999-2001.
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE:
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES, Washington, D.C.: Affordable Housing Program Director running a
training program on collaboration on affordable housing for city officials nationwide. 1997-1999.
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF BLAIR COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA (Director):
Training and
supervising teachers of children ages birth to five, and their parents on parenting and child development
issues; educating the community about positive parenting and community support to reduce problem
behaviors among youth and adults, via speaking engagements and marketing materials. 1995-1997.
HEAD START, Bedford, PA : Assistant Director for early childhood education program. 1993-1995.
AREA AGENCY ON AGING, Bedford, PA: Program Director, Family Caregiver Program; Protective
Services Caseworker investigating elder abuse. 1991-1993
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS:
Founding partner: REACH (Research Engagement and Community Healing). Strategic interdisciplinary
research group at Penn State on gender-based violence, focused on campus sexual assault.
Chair, Association of American Law Schools Clinical Section Communications Committee, 2012-present
Member, Clinical Legal Education Association Best Practices Committee, 2012-present
Board Chair, Communities that Care of Centre County, 2007-present
Director, MidPenn Legal Services Board (provides legal aid in 18 counties in Central PA), 2008-present
Director, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Centre County, 2008-2011
Chair, Resource Committee, Care Partnership/Centre Region Communities that Care. 2003-2007
Chair, Young Lawyers’ Division, Centre County Bar Association. 2005-2007
Academic Policy Committee and Fundraising Committee, Nittany Valley Charter School 2007-2009
Leadership Centre County (PA), Class of 2007
Pennsylvania Rural Leadership Program, Class of 1997
OTHER SERVICE:
PENN STATE LAW CURRICUMULM COMMITTEE, 2014-15
PENN STATE LAW EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING COMMITTEE, 2013-14
PENN STATE LAW TRIAL ADVOCACY TEAMS: Volunteer judge for law student teams, April 2011.
PENN STATE MOCK TRIAL TEAMS: Volunteer judge for undergraduate student teams, 2002-2005.
STUDENT LEADERSHIP:
Criminal Justice Clinic, American University Law School (with the Anne Arundel County (MD) State
Attorney’s Office & Montgomery County Public Defender’s Office). 1999-2000.
Juvenile Law Moot Court Team, American University Law School. 1999.
Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, American University Law School, 1998-2000.
HONORS:
Pennsylvania Bar Association Pro Bono Attorneys of the Year award, 2010
Outstanding Board Member, Care Partnership/Centre Region Communities that Care. 2007
Pennsylvania Business and Professional Women, Individual Development Award 1994
AREAS OF INTEREST: Domestic violence; law and economics; reproductive rights; legal ethics and
professional responsibility; juvenile justice.