High School Participation: Girls’ Volleyball (first 2 years they had girls sports), Concert Band, Pep Band, Forensics, Senior and All School Plays, Elkan, School Newspaper; Recipient of the Elkhart Lake Young Women’s’ Club Scholarship
Post-Secondary Education:
1979 Bachelor of Science Degree, Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, WI
1979 Bachelor of Science Degree, Social Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, WI
1983 Juris Doctor of Law Degree, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN
Noteworthy Achievements:
Sept 1981 – Oct 1983: Law Clerk, Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office
Oct 1983 – Apr 1984: Assistant City Attorney, Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office (Criminal Prosecution)
Apr 1984 – Apr 1986: District Court Judicial Clerk (10th Judicial District; Judges Olson and Sokolowski)
Mar 1985 – Oct 1985: Staff Attorney (Governor’s Commission to Investigate Removal of Attorney Morris)
Apr 1986 – May 1987: Associate Attorney, F Madden & Assoc. (Areas of education law, personal injury, workers’ comp.)
Jun 1987 – July 1999: Assistant Attorney General, Minnesota Attorney General’s Office (Assigned to represent the Minnesota Dept. of Human Services; Areas of Medicaid, Managed Care, Licensing, Child Support, and Indian Law)(Appellate representation at Minnesota Court of Appeals, Minnesota Supreme Court, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States Supreme Court)
Aug 1999 – Present: Assistant District General Counsel Minneapolis School District (Representing the Minneapolis School District specializing in areas of special education and alternative education.) (Since July 2001, also served as Manager of the Minneapolis Public Schools Special Education Monitoring and Compliance Team, and overseeing of the CoFAST and Tuition Billing Teams.)
Admitted to the Minnesota Bar – October 1983
Admitted to the Wisconsin Bar – September 1985
Admitted to the Minnesota Federal District Court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals – December 1985
Admitted to the United Supreme Court – October 1994
Current Member of the Minnesota State Bar Association (Board of Governors (1991-1997)
Current Member of the Minnesota Women Lawyers (Board of Directors (1986-1992))
Minnesota Finance & Commerce Editorial Advisory Board (1990-2001)
Hennepin County, American, and Wisconsin Bar Associations
Volunteer Firefighter, Medicine Lake Fire Dept. (1986-1997); Certified First Responder
2019 P. Ken Kohnstamm Pro Bono/Public Service Award from the Minnesota State Bar Assoc. Public Law Section
Kim has presented over 250 trainings for school, staff, administrators, school resource officers, county attorney staff on special education due process issues and care and treatment facility issues. She was the speaker at St. Thomas University for Principal/Special Education Directors Licensing classes on student discipline process and special education issues. And she has held training sessions for the Minnesota Department of Human Services staff on data practices, licensing, background studies, and the Vulnerable Adults Act.
