Shareholder
Phone: (513) 421-2540
Fax: (513) 562-4986
Email: ewwortman@ennisbritton.com
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Ms. Wessendorf-Wortman is a shareholder with the firm. She advises clients on a variety of educational law matters including labor and employment issues, student discipline and rights, special education and 504 matters, relationships with school resource officers, serving transgender students, employee misconduct and investigations, booster matters, and general school law practice. She is a member of the firm’s Special Education and Workers’ Compensation Practice Teams. Ms. Wessendorf-Wortman has served as a lead negotiator in bargaining and defended boards of education in arbitration, special education mediation, and due process hearings. She has represented school boards before a variety of federal and state administrative agencies, including the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, the State Employment Relations Board, the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. Ms. Wessendorf-Wortman is a frequent presenter at professional conferences and at administrator and staff in-service training.
Recent Presentations and Published Works
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- February 25, 2016: Public Relations, Ashland University Next Gen Seminar Series
- February 19, 2016: Ohio Special Education Law, National Business Institute
- October 22, 2015: Title VI, Dealing with Complaints Centering on Race, Color and National Origin Discrimination
- August 26, 2015: Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Students in Schools, EB Webinar
- June 30, 2015: School Law Update, OSROA Conference
- March 30, 2015: Family & Medical Leave Act, OASPA Administrative Assistants Seminar
- August 1, 2019: High AIMS – Avoiding Professional Pitfalls for Educators
- July 25, 2019: NWOASBO Human Resources & Treasurers
- June 25, 2019: OSROA Legal Conference – School Based Law Update
- March 12, 2019: State Support Team 12 – Special Education Legal Update
- March 6, 2019: Northwest Ohio Association of School Business Officials – Legal Update
- February 5, 2019: Brown County ESC & Southern Ohio ESC – Special Education Legal Update
- December 7, 2018: Southwest Ohio Personnel Administrators
- November 13, 2018: School Law Workshop: How’d We Get There? Special Education Fights, Ohio School Boards Association (OSBA) Capital Conference
- October 2018: Ennis Britton’s Section 504 Symposium
- September 18, 2018: Legal Update, Southern Ohio ESC
- September 14, 2018: Legal Update, Southwest Ohio Personnel Administrators
- September 6, 2018: Legal Update, Buckeye Association of School Administrators (BASA)
- September 5, 2018: Levy Campaign Compliance, Ennis Britton Webinar
- August 2, 2018: Progress Monitoring in Endrew F. World, Hamilton County ESC
- July 27, 2018: Licensure and Legal Updates for Treasurers, Ohio Association of School Business Officials (OASBO) Northwest Region
- June 15, 2018: Title IX and Schools, OSBA
- April 19, 2018: Technology Pitfalls and Traps, OASBO
- April 5, 2018: Special Education, Ennis Britton Administrator’s Academy
- April 3, 2018: Special Education Hot Topics, State Support Team 12
- March 6, 2018: Special Education Forms and Progress Monitoring, Frontline Education
- February 9, 2018: Southwest Ohio Personnel Administrators
- December 14, 2017: Special Education Progress Monitoring and Disciplining Students with Disabilities, Warren County ESC
- November 14, 2017: Ethics for Teachers, Warren County ESC
- November 13, 2017: Board Meetings: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, OSBA Capital Conference
- October 2017: Ennis Britton’s Special Education Symposium
- October 4, 2017: Fall Workshop, Northwest Ohio Association of School Business Officials (NWOASBO)
- September 19, 2017: Legal Update, Southern Ohio ESC
- September 8, 2017: Staff Discipline and Licensure, Southwest Ohio Personnel Administrators
- August 10, 2017: House Bill Summary and Update, Trumbull County ESC
- August 10, 2017: Serving Transgender Students, Trumbull County ESC
- August 3, 2017: Legal Update, Southern Ohio ESC
- May 8, 2017: Transgender Students and EMIS, Ohio Association of EMIS Professionals
- April 4, 2017: A Legal Perspective on Cyberliability, Hamilton Clermont Cooperative Association
- March 28, 2017: Supreme Court Decisions in Special Education, Ennis Britton (EB) Webinar
- March 23, 2017: School Resource Officer Legal Update, Southwest Ohio School Resource Officers Association (OSROA)
- March 16, 2017: Legal Update, BASA School Facilities and Safety Conference
- January 26, 2017: Ethics for Treasurers, Ohio Valley/Miami Valley Joint Meeting, OASBO
- January 26, 2017: School Employee Leave and Benefits Update, EB Administrator’s Academy
- November 15, 2016: Ethics for Teachers, Warren County Educational Service Center
- November 14, 2016: Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Students in Schools, OSBA
- October 21, 2016: Human Resources Administrative Assistants, Ohio Association of School Personnel Administrators (OASPA)
- September 28, 2016: Fall Workshop, NWOASBO
- September 13,2016: Legal Update, Southern Ohio ESC
- August 25, 2016: Updates on Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Students in Schools, Ennis Britton Webinar
- June 24, 2016: Tackling Technology in High School Athletics, OSBA Sports Law Workshop
- April 7, 2016: Picking Your Battles: Decision Points That Make or Break IEP Teams, EB Administrator’s Academy Seminar Series
- January 13, 2015: Ethics for Teachers, Warren County ESC
Bar Admissions
Ohio
Court Admissions
- United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio
- United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio
Professional & Civic Organizations/Activities
- Ohio State Bar Association
- Cincinnati Bar Association
- Alpha Delta Pi Sorority, Miami University (Ohio) Chapter Advisor
Education
- J.D., The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (2009)
- B.A., Communications, Miami University, Ohio (2004)
- B.S., Marketing, Miami University, Ohio (2004)