Background
Linkner, Monica Farris was born on December 2, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Bernard and Madelyn (Lederer) Farris.
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Monica Farris Farris Linkner
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Student, University Michigan, 1965-1967; Bachelor magna cum laude, Wayne State University, 1972; Juris Doctor, Wayne State University, 1977.
Career
Assistant to reporter, State of Michigan Standard Criminal Jury Instrns. Committee, Detroit, 1973-1974; clinical student attorney, Wayne State University Employment Discrimination, Detroit, 1977; clerk, Michigan Court Appeals, Detroit, 1977-1978; associate, Lampert, Fried & Levitt, PC, Birmingham, Michigan, 1978-1980; associate, Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, et. al., Detroit, 1980-1988; private practice, Berkley, Michigan, since 1988; principal attorney, Adoption Law Center, Professional Corporation, since 1993.
Achievements
Membership
Advocate Parents for Private Adoption, Lathrup Village, Michigan, since 1990. Volunteer teacher Peoples Law School, Detroit, 1985, Women's Prison Legal Education Project, Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1975-1977. Member ATLA, American Civil Liberties Union, American Academy Adoption Attorneys (trustee since 1995), Michigan Trial Lawyers Association (sustaining.
Handicappers law reform advocate 1988-1990, chair amicus curiae committee 1988-1994), State Bar (family law section adoption committee), since 1995, Disability Rights Bar Association, Women Lawyers Association Michigan, South Carolina. Trial Lawyers Association, Family Tree (president), Amnesty International, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Lambda Delta.
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Married Robert V. Linkner, December 27, 1967 (divorced May 1973). 1 child, Joshua Morgan Linkner. Married Dennis J.Dlugokinski, June 4, 1984.
1 child, Matthew Scott Dlugokinski.
