jennifer j. rose

Who Is GP|Solo Secretary jennifer j. rose?

• Formally, jennifer j. rose. (Try reading it like a sentence!)
• Born during the Truman administration (but really doesn’t remember much about it).
• Learned to walk and talk in Turkey (the country, not the bird), schooled in Southern California, practiced divorce law in Iowa for 20 years, and now lives in Mexico.
• 1976 Drake University Law School graduate.
• Was town attorney for three cities with a combined population of less than a thousand.
• Past chair of the Iowa State Bar Association Family & Juvenile Law Section and former (and first woman) president of the 12-member Page County Bar Association.
• Served on ABA Standing Committee on Continuing Education of the Bar; now serves on ABA Standing Committee on Publishing Oversight.
• Served as Editor-in-Chief of GPSOLO magazine, 1995-2007.
• Editor, How to Capture and Keep Clients (she recommends the use of soft restraints).
• List manager for Solosez for the past decade.
• Most embarrassing Division moment: Moderating a CLE program at an Annual Meeting where the room was packed but none of the speakers showed up. Passing the microphone around the room, she recruited the attendees to talk.
• On her iPod: Kinky Friedman, Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan.
• Lives alone with Goodman, her Doberman pinscher.
• Serves on the local historical preservation council.
• Remembers e-mail addresses better than faces.
• Blogs at www.staringatstrangers.com.