Bonnie Stepleton

JD University of New Mexico, 1987
BS University of Oregon, 1984

Bonnie grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  She attended the University of Oregon and obtained a BS in Political Science in 1984.  She graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1987.  She was a law clerk in the New Mexico Supreme Court.  Following her clerkship, Bonnie represented people with intellectual disabilities and then practiced law in insurance defense.  She served as a mediator with the New Mexico Workers’ Compensation administration and has also been a volunteer mediator for the Metropolitan Court. She was Assistant Dean for Student Services from 2004 until 2014 when she left to return to the Workers’ Comp Administration as Bureau Chief.   She served as Appellate Mediator with the New Mexico Court of Appeals in 2018 and early 2019 and then returned again to the law school as Director of Student and Career Services.

Patrick Lopez, Esq. JD, LLM

Associate Director of Student and Career Services

Beth Kaimowitz, JD

JD University of New Mexico, 1987
BA University of New Mexico, 1984

Beth Kaimowitz is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law. In law school, she worked as a legal analysis tutor, a law clerk for a civil litigation firm, and a research assistant for the Institute of Public Law. After law school, she worked for the United States Department of Labor in Los Angeles, CA, the New Mexico Human Services Department in Santa Fe, NM, and for the Albuquerque Branch Library of the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. She has over fifteen years of experience working at the University of New Mexico in academic support, health sciences, and library research and instruction. Ms. Kaimowitz worked for five years at the University of New Mexico Center for Academic Program Support, where her research interests focused on critical thinking, educational diversity, and collaborative learning.

As Director of Academic Success at the University of New Mexico School of Law, Ms. Kaimowitz is responsible for academic success programs aimed to improve students’ academic performance and success on the bar examination, in preparation for the practice of law. Ms. Kaimowitz’s experience with law practice, legal analysis, and academic support allow her to provide a range of academic success services tailored to diverse students’ needs.