Linda Wendling earned her BA in French with a minor in political science from Rutgers College, and her JD from Seton Hall School of Law. She is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and North Carolina and served on the N.C. Bar Association’s Ethics & Professionalism Committee for almost a decade. Believing that learning never ends, Linda pursued her Master’s degree in history at North Carolina State University, concentrating on Constitutional Theory. Additionally, Linda earned an LL.M. in Environmental Law in January 2016 from Vermont Law School. The culmination of her studies was an appointment to the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21) as a U.N. delegate to assist Myanmar in preparing their position papers for international negotiations.
After leaving the active practice of law in 2001, she turned to academia. She joined the faculty of Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey as the Founding Program Director for Paralegal Studies and designed the entire curriculum from scratch and attained approval from the American Bar Association. Linda moved from the classroom to higher education administration and served as Assistant Dean at North Carolina Central University School of Law, Chair of Legal Studies at South University, and Director of College Compliance and Accreditation at Western Governors University. Linda has authored three legal textbooks on Paralegal Practice, Legal Ethics, and Contract Law and is currently drafting the teacher’s manual for the 2d edition of the Earth Law textbook by the Earth Law Center.
