Special Education Due Process HearingsAccountability Programs : Minnesota Department of Education

Special Education Due Process Hearings

Barbara Neilson


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Barbara L. Neilson

Office of Administrative Hearings

Mailing Address:

P.O. Box 64620

St. Paul, MN  55164

Street Address:

600 North Robert Street

St. Paul, MN  55101

W: 651-361-7845

F: 651-361-7936

Qualifications:

1) Hearing officer since 1990

2) License: Attorney – 1978

3) J.D. University of Minnesota, 1978

B.A. St. Cloud State University, 1975

4) Training:

June 2005 - 4th National Academy for IDEA Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers

May 1999 - LRP Workshop on IDEA Regulations

October 1996 - LRP Regional Institute on Special Education Law

Since 1993 – I have attended nearly all of the hearing officer training sessions offered by the Department of Education as well as many programs by other sponsors on the conduct of administrative hearings of all types.

I have been employed as an Administrative Law Judge from 1989 to the present. During 1978-79 and 1981-89, I was engaged in the private practice of law in St. Paul, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. I was an attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1979-1981.

I am employed by a Minnesota state agency (the Office of Administrative Hearings). I am not employed by the State Education Agency or a Local Education Agency.