Jeanette Stull - Walton, NE

Jeanette has enjoyed a varied practice for almost 30 years, attempting to handle as many of a client’s needs under one roof and giving them the continuity that comes from one firm handling the various legal issues that may come their way over a lifetime. Jeanette’s practice includes family law matters, including adoptions, divorces, paternity actions, and modifications; estate planning; probate and trust administration; will contests and other estate litigation; guardianships and conservatorships; real estate and construction matters; employment law; school law; and general civil litigation. Jeanette has extensive experience representing clients throughout southeast Nebraska in state and federal courts, both at the trial court level and in appeals to the Nebraska Court of Appeals, Nebraska Supreme Court, and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Jeanette was raised in Bellevue and attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, earning a degree in criminal justice, magna cum laude. Jeanette continued her studies at the University of Nebraska College of Law and graduated Order of the Coif and with highest distinction in 1997. During law school, Jeanette served as executive editor of the Nebraska Law Review, earned a Theodore Sorensen fellowship in public interest law, and was runner-up for the Robert G. Simmons Law Practice Award for her article, The Department of Justice’s No-Contact Rule–A Proposal for a Modified Rule, which was later published in the Criminal Law Bulletin. Prior to Jeanette’s time in private practice, she held a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Kenneth C. Stephan of the Nebraska Supreme Court.

Over her career, Jeanette has volunteered with numerous nonprofit organizations, including the Nebraska affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, Sheridan Lutheran Church and its foundation, Lincoln Lutheran Middle/High School, and Alpha Xi Delta Fraternity. She has also served the profession in several legal-related volunteer roles such as the Nebraska Supreme Court’s Practice and Procedure Committee, the Federal Practice Committee, the Nebraska Branch of the Historical Society for the United States Court of Appeals in the Eighth Circuit, the Nebraska Supreme Court Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Commission, the Robert Van Pelt American Inn of Court, the Lincoln Bar Association Law Day Committee, and the Judicial Nominating Commission.