May 26, 1995
by Mary M. Thomas, NFPA President
(913) 232-2200
Jolene Riley Miller, former National Federation of Paralegal Associations, Inc. President, garnered the association's annual William R. Robie Leadership Award for 1995. NFPA bestowed the award upon Miller at its annual meeting in Albuquerque this month.Not only has Miller served NFPA in several capacities--as President, Vice President-Policy, Regional II Director, Board Advisor, and as Secretary, District Director, and Primary Representative for the Kansas Legal Assistants Society (KLAS), she helped found KLAS in 1977. Miller was one of the first students in the associate-degree program in paralegal studies at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. (Miller had earned a B.S. in business previously from Emporia State University.) In 1992 she coordinated NFPA's Regulation Symposium in Houston.
Today, she co-chairs NFPA's Education Committee, represents NFPA at the ABA Approval Commission for Paralegal Training Programs, and serves on the NFPA Paralegal Scholarship Committee.
Employed by the Santa Fe Railroad Company in Topeka, where she works in customer receivables, Miller previously worked as a paralegal in a private law firm and for a government agency. She also serves as a mentor for Washburn University students. Miller has been recognized by other paralegal organizations, too. The national magazine, Legal Assistant Today, named her "Legal Assistant of the Year" in 1989, and KLAS recognized her with its Outstanding Service Award in 1987.
Each year since 1993, NFPA has bestowed the William R. Robie Leadership Award upon a paralegal who is a credit to the profession. NFPA is honored to bestow an award in the name of Judge Robie, whose dedication, not only to the paralegal profession, but to the law, was unmatched.
