Vita
Suzanne Lindamood PhD, JD
October 2005
2161 Arlington Ave., Columbus, Ohio
(614) 488-7794
suzanne@lindamood.com
EDUCATION
JD The Ohio State University, May 1991.
PhD Cornell University, 1974
Department: Consumer Economics and Public Policy
Major: Housing
Minor: Social Research Methods
Dissertation: An analysis of a housing alternative: household characteristics, housing satisfaction, residential mobility, and housing expenditures of mobile home and conventional home residents.
MA Cornell University, 1970
Department: Housing and Design
Major: Housing
Minor: City and Regional Planning
Thesis: Obstacles to change among poverty groups: The relationship of housing and housing satisfaction to school achievement among teen-agers.
BS Carnegie-Mellon University, 1968
CURRENT POSITION
Attorney, The Ohio Legislative Service Commission. 1991 – present.
Non-partisan staff attorney for the Ohio General Assembly. Member of Insurance, Commerce, and Labor group. Primary responsibility for consumer law, sales practices law, professional licensing, building regulations, hotel law, real property law, and homeland security.
· Draft legislation, analyze bills, research legal and policy questions.
· Attorney for House Financial Institutions, Real Estate, and Securities committee. Past committees include House Homeland Security, Senate Education, Higher Education Subcommittee of House Finance and Appropriations, House Aging & Housing.
· Prepared over 100 research papers on wide range of topics including warranty law, consumer sales practices, child support guidelines, education, measuring poverty, credit reporting, predatory lending, housing costs, home foreclosure, mortgage flipping.
· Drafted several hundred bills including Ohio Bioterrorism law, Ohio Condominium law, Lead paint regulation, Home improvement contractor regulation, Single Room Occupancy Hotel law, Statewide building code for single family homes.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Admitted to the Ohio Bar, November, 1991
Obtained nine research grants, including National Science Foundation grant for a survey of 1,000 households in Montgomery, Alabama.
Thompson Publishing Award for paper presented at the 2005 meeting of the Academy of Financial Services. Risk tolerance of married couples, with S.D. Hanna.
Certified Financial Planner Award for a paper presented at Academy of Financial Services, October 2004. An improved measure of risk aversion, with S.D. Hanna.
Quarter-finalist, OSU Moot-Court Competition. 1989. Mock Supreme Court oral arguments, required of all first year law students, Sixth Amendment issue.
University professor, taught graduate and undergraduate courses in statistics, research methods, policy analysis, consumer aspects of housing, housing finance, social and economic aspects of housing. Directed nine dissertations and theses. Promoted to associate professor and received tenure at age 31.
Author of textbook, Housing, Society and Consumers, West Publishing Company, used at more than 100 universities; thirty refereed publications; over forty conference presentations.
Founding editor of journal Housing and Society, served as editor for nine years; associate editor, Financial Counseling and Planning, three years.
Chair, National Institute of Building Sciences “blue ribbon” commission to review HUD research priorities. Commission established pursuant to Congressional mandate.
Extensive law school coursework in areas directly related to consumer economics, family finance, and housing. Courses include consumer law, real estate finance, family law, bankruptcy, wills, trusts and estates, taxation, wealth transfer, secured transactions, gratuitous transfers, decedents estates, land use planning, and juvenile law.
Member of HUD’s National Manufactured Housing Advisory Committee, three years. HUD’s only advisory council. Consumer Member of 24 person council.
Outstanding Teaching Award. Selected by students in College of Home Economics, Southern Illinois University, as outstanding teacher in Family Economics and Management Department.
Outstanding Teacher Recognition. Selected by K-State Chimes Sophomore Honor Society for recognition at annual Parents Day. One of four selected campus-wide. 1985.
OSU Journal on Dispute Resolution, selected as staff member based on paper competition. 20 members chosen from 120 papers submitted. 1990 -91.
Academic fellow, American Society for Testing and Materials, 1981. Selected to participate in one year program to familiarize academics with voluntary standards and regulations. Attended ASTM seminars and served as member of ASTM Fire Safety committee.
City Commissioner and Mayor of Manhattan Kansas (six years). Named by the Manhattan Mercury as one of the ten best city commissioners in Manhattan history (1987).
First runner-up in a Manhattan Mercury public opinion poll as Manhattan's most admired citizen of 1981.
Studied under distinguished scholars at Cornell University, including
Major advisor: Earl W. Morris, PhD Cornell University, now Professor Emeritus, The University of Minnesota (where he was head of the Department of Design, Housing and Apparel) and Affiliate Professor at Iowa State University.
Committee member: Mary Winter, PhD Pennsylvania State University, now Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, Iowa State University.
Committee member: Neil W. Henry, MA Dartmouth College, PhD Columbia University, now Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, Statistical Sciences and Operations Research Department, joint appointment in Sociology and Anthropology.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
University Teaching
· Associate Professor (1979-87) and Assistant Professor (1977-78). Department of Family Economics; Department of Textiles, Interior Design & Housing, Kansas State University.
· Assistant Professor (1974-77). Department of Textile and Consumer Sciences, Auburn University.
· Assistant Professor (1973-1974). Southern Illinois University.
· Visiting Professor (Summer, 1988). University of British Columbia.
· Visiting Professor (Summer, 1978). Texas Tech University.
RESEARCH
Submitted proposals, received grants, and served as project co-directors, co-principal investigators:
NASD
Investor Education Foundation, $140,880 for a grant titled
"Research-based investment education guidelines for Black and Hispanic
households: Integration of household survey research, focus group
findings, and evaluation of educational materials and programs."
(Collaborator with PI, Sherman D. Hanna.)
Certified Financial Planner Board Grant. Study of investment decision-making of married couples. $5,000, December 2004-January 2006. Co-PI with Sherman D. Hanna .
Alabama household surveys. Three separate grants to fund study of economic, demographic, lifestyle, and housing characteristics of urban and rural households. With co-principal, Sherman Hanna, designed the survey instrument, trained the community based interviewers, selected the sample using two-stage cluster and random techniques, and supervised coding the data and computer analysis. PI. The three grants:
National Science Foundation grant for survey of 1,000 households in Montgomery, Alabama to assist planning department in allocation of Community Development and other government funds. Grant supported two to four graduate research assistants and six student workers per academic year, and twenty field interviewers.
Auburn University Public Service Grant to conduct a survey of 400 households in two urbanizing counties. Grant supported one research assistant and two student workers per academic year, and ten field interviewers.
Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Hatch 423, funding for survey of 400 households in two rural low-income counties. Part of Southern Regional Research Project, S-95. Grant supported one research assistant and two student workers per academic year, and ten field interviewers.
Grant recipient and principal investigator, Kansas State University research:
Land Use Regulations, Housing Alternatives, and Housing Costs in Non-Metropolitan Kansas, Funded by Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station. 1986-1989. Supported one research assistant and one graduate student worker per year.
Housing in Kansas. An analysis of housing conditions by county, based on census and other data, prepared in a format useful for cooperative extension and other decision-makers in the state. Funded by Kansas Agricultural Experiment station. 1985 – 1987. Supported one research assistant and one undergraduate student worker per year.
Fire Safety of Mobile and Conventional Homes: An analysis of the impact of 1976 federal mobile home safety standards. Funded by Kansas State University, Special Faculty Research Grant. 1980 - 1981.
Consumer Energy Expenditures. Funded by Area Energy Alliance. A household survey investigating energy use, housing characteristics, and acceptable energy alternatives. Donna Bronner, PhD advisee, co-investigator, 1982.
Principal investigator, unfunded research:
Title Insurance as a Consumer Problem. Gathered primary data on title insurance companies doing business in Ohio from the files at the Ohio Department of Insurance. Analyzed data in the costs of title insurance and payouts of those companies. Analyzed the legal status of title insurance companies that exempts them from competition, compared costs and payouts to other forms of insurance, and made policy recommendations. 1990 – 1992.
Availability of Alternative Mortgages. A national telephone survey of lenders. December 1981.
Handicap Accessibility of Manhattan Apartment Complexes. Survey of apartments in complexes to obtain measurements and determine accessibility and produce report for distribution. Conducted as a student service learning project in cooperation with Kansas State University Special Student Services. 1981.
Future Housing Preferences of Students. A survey of students in undergraduate housing courses, 1978-1984.
Research Consultant
Center for Special Needs Populations. Ohio State University College of Education. 1988-89.
Directed two research projects funded by the Ohio Department of Education and the School Study Council of Ohio. Supervised research staff and OSU graduate research associates. Prepared report for Ohio Department of Education. Wrote successful grant application to Ohio Department of Education for funding for the survey of pre-school programs.
· Cost-effectiveness of alternatives for education of handicapped pre-school children. Prepared cost estimates and wrote report based on demographics, costs in comparable states, and impact of programs including Head Start
· Survey of Ohio preschools to determine enrollment of handicapped children and assess feasibility and acceptability of alternatives for promoting the enrollment of handicapped children in existing pre-schools. Designed survey, selected sample, administered and analyzed survey using Dillman mail survey techniques.
Research Associate
The Ohio State University College of Law
Student research associate on three projects while a law student. Two in emerging area of law and social science.
· The role of lawyers in the home-buying process. A survey of recent purchasers. Assisted in survey design and sample selection, directed student assistants, designed coding system, and worked with Political Science Survey Research Center to field-test survey. Project director: Michael Braunstein, 1989 - 1990.
· Statistical analysis of statute of frauds cases. Analysis of whether courts uphold statutes of frauds and conditions under which the law is upheld or avoided. Helped develop code, coded cases, and analyzed data using SPSS. Project director: Michael Braunstein, 1989.
· Research for book on Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure. Charles Wilson, Summer 1989.
Graduate Research Assistant
Cornell University
Research assistant on two major projects, each of which funded over six graduate research assistants and several full time researchers, statisticians, and programmers.
· Housing and Mobility Study. (Hatch Project 404) Worked four years on all phases of survey of 800 households – survey design, sample selection, interviewing, and data analysis of project on housing and mobility in urbanizing areas. Produced project working paper on sample selection. Data served as basis of dissertation. Major researcher: Earl. W. Morris. 1969 – 1973.
· Interdepartmental Research Group on Poverty. Study comparing academic success of teenage children of single mothers in poverty and not in poverty. Performed statistical analysis of pilot project; assisted in design of housing section. Data served as basis of Master’s thesis. Major researcher: Harold Feldman. 1968-1969.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Carnegie-Mellon University
· Project studying family interaction. Responsible for coding interactions of family members filmed in gaming situations. Helene Borke. 1966-68.
· Pre-school laboratory school student assistant responsible for small groups of children in specified tasks. Also observed interactions in activity areas from behind one-way mirror and coded behavior. Ann Tyler. 1965-67.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Advisor and head of PhD supervisory committee
Bronner, Donna (1985). A comparison of owners' and renters' winter thermostat setting behavior using a two stage path analysis. Kansas State University.
Perch, Karen (1983). Housing quality, preferences and satisfaction of households with and without a disabled member. Kansas State University.
Member of PhD supervisory committee
Carter, Lanita (1986). Consumer expenditures for meals eaten away from home. Kansas State University.
Buell, Barbara P. (1986). Factors influencing rates of mobile home ownership : a cross-sectional, aggregate analysis. Kansas State University.
Atilano, Raymond B. (1982). Comparison of a nurse-alone and a spouse-added group support program: Impact on psychological, relationship and occupational well-being. Kansas State University (Family and Child Development).
Advisor, MS supervisory committee, thesis option
Hefley, Kim (1986). Social class and housing: Housing achieved, housing preferred, and income elasticity of blue and white collar households in Montgomery, Alabama. Kansas State University.
Stockdell, Melanie (1979). Housing satisfaction among university students. Kansas State University.
Sanders, Susan (1979). Student family housing at Kansas State University: Satisfaction and future programs. Kansas State University.
Walker, Cindy Lee (1977). A comparison of audio-visual and lecture methods of teaching home finance. Auburn University. .
Rees, Kathleen (1976). Future housing preferences and expectations of college seniors of Anglo-American and Mexican-American backgrounds. Auburn University.
Buell, Barbara (1974). A study of the migrant action program of Mason City, Iowa. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Peterson, Susan (1974). Differences in food purchase patterns of families with pre-school children with and without television in the home. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Member, MS supervisory committee, thesis option
Wilkinson, Sheryl (1984). Factors related to consumer perceived costs of household appliance repair. Kansas State University.
Sinkula, Cindy S. (1982). Housing allowances: An alternative to traditional low-income housing. Kansas State University. (City & Regional Planning).
Gerdon, Joe (1980). Kansas information and reference system for housing: Planning and development phases. Kansas State University. (C&RP).
Kiernan, Frances (1979). Recommendations for the evaluation and update of housing program handbook for Kansas communities. Kansas State University. (C&RP).
Reardon, Lanita (Carter) (1978). Factors influencing the initiative to seek help with housing management problems. Auburn University.
Advisor, MS supervisory committee, non-thesis option
Doubrava, Nancy. May 1985
Bronner, Donna. May 1982
Buckler, Deborah. December 1981
Grauerholtz, Sandra. May 1980
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Lindamood, S., & Hanna, S. (1979). Housing, society and consumers. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co. 500 page college textbook used at over 100 universities.
Lindamood, S. (1982). Housing. A self-instruction guide to housing finance. University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 140 pages.
Lindamood, S., & Tremblay K., Jr. (Eds.). (1990). Social aspects of housing: Research issues and opportunities. New York: Haworth Press.
Monographs
Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1977). Report to the Montgomery Planning Department.
Bock, B., Lindamood, S., & Hanna, S. (1976). A decent home: Housing problems in Alabama and policy recommendations. Alabama Legislature Publication.
Chapters in books
Hanna, S., &. Lindamood, S. (1987). The impact of high rent-income ratios on other consumer expenditures. In Willem van Vliet (Ed.). Housing research and policy issues in an era of fiscal austerity. Greenwood Press, 1987.
Lindamood, S., & Hanna, S. (1990). Housing preferences of blacks and whites in Montgomery, Alabama. In Lindamood, S., &Tremblay, K. (Eds.). Social aspects of housing: Research issues and opportunities. New York: Haworth Press.
Lindamood, S. (1981). Housing (Advice from an expert). In D. A. McCowan, Contemporary personal finance. Boston: Houghton Miflin Co.
Articles in refereed journals
Yao, R., Hanna, S. D., & Lindamood, S. (2004). Changes in financial risk tolerance, 1983-2001. Financial Services Review, 13 (4),249-266.
Hanna, S. D., & Lindamood, S. (2004). An improved measure of risk aversion. Financial Counseling and Planning, 15 (2), 27-38.
Chang, Y. R., & Lindamood, S. (1993). Factors related to the risk of household income variability. Financial Counseling and Planning, 4, 47-66.
Bae, M., Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1993). Patterns of overspending in U.S. households, Financial Counseling and Planning, 4, 11-30.
Lindamood, S. (1993). Title insurance and the consumer interest. Advancing the Consumer Interest, 5 (1), 18-29.
Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1985). Ownership and ownership preference: A comparison of OLS and logit regressions. Housing and Society, 12 (3), 133-146.
Perch, K., Lindamood, S., & Hanna, S. (1983). Housing satisfaction of the physically disabled. Housing and Society, 10 (3), 72-82.
Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1979). Housing preferences of blacks and whites in Montgomery, Alabama. Housing and Society. 6 (1), 39-47. Special issue on the Sociology of Housing. Guest edited by Earl Morris and Mary Winter.
Slagh, L., & Lindamood, S. (1978). Development and testing of a high school housing unit based on student interests and housing needs. Housing and Society, 5 (2), 25-32. Special issue on education. Guest edited by Joseph Wysocki and Roberta Null.
Lindamood, S. (1976). Housing as a process. Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 20 (1).
Lindamood, S. (1974). Housing as a process. Housing Educators Journal, 1.
Lindamood, S. (1973). Rural housing crisis and the mobile home myth. Human Ecology Forum, Winter.
Published Refereed Papers and Selected Other Publications
<>Lindamood, S. & Hanna, S. D. (2006). The more financially knowledgeable person in older couple households. Consumer Interests Annual, 52.
Hanna, S. D., & Lindamood, S. (2004). An improved measure of risk aversion. Proceedings of the Academy of Financial Services.
Hanna, S., Malroutu, L., Xiao, J. J., & Lindamood, S. (2000). Who wants to be a millionaire: Can low income households invest their way to wealth? Proceedings of the Alternative Perspectives On Finance Conference, Fifth Biennial Conference, Dundee University, Dundee, Scotland, July 2000.
Hanna, S., Wang, H., & Lindamood, S. (1994). Do elderly households have rational financial plans? Evidence from consumer expenditure data. Proceedings of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, 272-288.
Bae, M. K., Chang, Y.R., Hanna, S., Lindamood, S., & Martin, A. (1993). Overspending: three approaches. Proceedings of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, 17-19.
Hanna, S., Lindamood, S., & Stockdell, M. (1987). Factors related to housing satisfaction of off-campus renters. Proceedings of the Southeastern Regional Family Economics/Home Management Association.
Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1985). Factors related to overspending by renter households. Proceedings of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education.
Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1982). Components of housing satisfaction among urban residents. Proceedings of the American Association of Housing Educators,.
Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1981). Analysis of state fire death rates using stepwise regression, Proceedings of the American Association of Housing Educators.
Hanna, S. & Lindamood, S. (1979). Components of satisfaction among lower income rural families. Proceedings of the American Association of Housing Educators.
Lindamood, S. (1979). Satisfaction with present housing. Quality housing environment for rural low-income families. Proceedings of Housing Workshop, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Lindamood, S., & Hanna, S. (1978). Housing research in home economics. Proceedings of the Association for Consumer Research, Miami, Florida. (Invited paper).
Lindamood, S., & Rees, K. (1978). Implications of housing costs: A report of a survey of future housing consumers. Proceedings of the American Association of Housing Educators.
Hanna, S., Reardon, L., & Lindamood, S. (1978). Factors influencing the desire to seek help with housing problems. Proceedings of the American Association of Housing Educators.
Lindamood, S. (1976). Determinants of consumer acceptance of mobile homes: Community housing and public policy implications. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Lower Cost Housing Problems – 1976. Symposium sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the International Association for Housing Science, and Clemson University Institute for Housing. Atlanta, Georgia.
Lindamood, S., & Walker, C. (1976). Recent articles. Housing Educators Journal, 3(2).
Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1975). Recent articles of interest. Housing Educators Journal, 2(1).
Lindamood, S. (1972). Socio-economic characteristics of mobile home residents, Proceedings of American Association of Housing Educators.
Book Reviews
Lindamood, S. (1982). [Review of the book: Habitat. Social Issues Resources Series]. Housing and Society, 9(3).
Lindamood, S. (1982). [Review of the series: Product Primers. U.S. Bureau of the Census]. Housing and Society, 9(3).
Lindamood, S. (1979). [Review of the monograph: Residential energy alternatives]. McKown, 1979. Housing and Society, 6(2).
Lindamood, S. (1977). [Review of the book: A time for accounting: The housing and community development act in the south. Brown, R., A. Coil and C. Rose]. Housing Educators Journal, 3(3).
Lindamood, S. (1976). [Review of the collection: Proceedings of IAHS symposium]. Housing Educators Journal, 3(2).
Lindamood, S. (1976). [Review of the collection: S-95 Workshop proceedings]. Housing Educators Journal, 3(2).
Lindamood, S. (1975). [Review of the book: Uniform residential landlord and tenant act]. Housing Educators Journal, 2(1).
Lindamood, S. (1973). [Review of the monograph: Mobile homes and the rural poor: An alternative non-solution. Margolis, Richard]. American Association of Housing Educators Newsletter. Spring.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(no proceedings)
Lindamood, S. (1995). Dealing with biased and erroneous research as a legislative staffer. National Conference on State Legislatures, Forum on State Issues, Salt Lake City.
Lindamood, S. (1986). You're going to allow that in our neighborhood? Presentation on land use restrictions for manufactured housing. Kansas Conference on Housing, Topeka.
Bronner, D., S. Lindamood, & Hanna, S. (1986). Energy use for winter space heating of owners and renters. American Home Economics Association.
Lindamood, S. (1985). Curricula in housing. Roundtable presentation, American Association of Housing Educators.
Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1985). Factors related to overspending by renters. Association for Financial Planning and Counseling Education, Anaheim, California.
Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1985). The impact of high rent-income ratios on other consumer expenditures. International Conference on Housing, sponsored by the International Sociological Association, the Nederlanse Sociologische en Antropologische Vereniging, and Stricting Gestructureerde Samenwerking, Amsterdam.
Lindamood, S. (1985). Panel member, Water: The next crisis. Home Economists in Business Session, American Home Economics Association, Philadelphia.
Lindamood, S. (1984). Sources of funding for research, education and extension: Some reflections on research priorities delineated by NIBS study of the HUD research agenda. American Association of Housing Educators, Washington, D.C. .
Lindamood, S. (1984). Selling consumers on energy efficiency. Energy Efficient Housing Conference. Sponsored by Engineering Extension, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
Lindamood, S. (1983). Siting of manufactured housing in Kansas. Annual meeting of Kansas Manufactured Housing Institute, Wichita, KS.
Lindamood, S. (1983). Local housing issues from the perspective of a local official, American Association of Housing Educators Annual Meeting, Lincoln, NE.
Lindamood, S. (1983) Local public consumption as a consumer issue. American Council on Consumer Interests Annual Meeting, Kansas City.
Lindamood, S., D. Bronner, & Hanna, S. (1983). Factors related to winter thermostat settings. American Home Economics Association Conference.
Perch, K., S. Hanna, & Lindamood, S. (1982). Housing satisfaction of households with and without disabled persons. American Home Economics Association Meeting.
Lindamood, S. (1982). Alternatives in financing for the 1980's. Workshop, Kentucky Home Economics Association and Electrical Women's Roundtable Annual Meeting (invited principal presentation speaker), Louisville, KY.
Lindamood, S. (1982). The dollars and sense of housing. Workshop, Kentucky Home Economics Association and Electrical Women's Roundtable Annual Meeting (invited principal presentation speaker), April 1, 1982, Louisville, KY.
Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1981). Factor analysis of satisfaction with housing and neighborhood characteristics. American Home Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlantic City.
Lindamood, S. (1980).The role of the home economist in improved housing for the aging. Invited Workshop Speaker, American Home Economics Association Annual Meeting, Dallas.
Lindamood, S., & Rees, K. (1979). Housing preferences and expectations of future consumers. American Home Economics Association Annual Meeting.
Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1979). Do elderly homeowners want to stay in their homes? American Sociological Association Meeting, Boston.
Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1979). Patterns of help-seeking for housing problems. American Home Economics Association Meeting.
Lindamood, S., & Hanna, S. (1979). Housing needs of female-headed households. American Home Economics Association Meeting.
Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1979). Determinants of interest in housing related extension classes. The American Home Economics Association Annual Meeting.
Rees, K., & Lindamood, S. (1979). Housing aspirations and expectations of future consumers of two ethnic backgrounds. The American Home Economics Association Annual Meeting.
Lindamood, S., & Hanna, S. (1978). Housing decisions in terms of total resource management. Workshop on Dual-career Families, Kansas State University.
Lindamood, S. (1978). Housing alternatives for the elderly. Workshop session at the Governor's Conference on Aging, Kansas State University.
Lindamood, S. (1978). Housing: New directions. Home Economics Forum, Kansas State University.
Lindamood, S., & Hanna, S. (1978). People oriented research in housing. Kansas State Department of Architecture, Faculty/graduate student seminar.
Lindamood, S. (1978). Housing prospects in Alabama. Keynote talk at Alabama State Home Economics Teachers Workshop, Birmingham, Alabama.
Lindamood, S. (1977). Housing in Alabama, problems and prospects. State Housing Workshop, Montgomery, Alabama.
Lindamood, S. (1977) Untangling research. Alabama Home Economics Association Meeting, Birmingham, Alabama.
Lindamood, S., & Hanna, S. (1976). Trends in housing research. Tuskeegee-Auburn-Montgomery Regional Home Economics Association Meeting.
Lindamood, S. (1976). A housing quality index incorporating objective and subjective measures: Policy implications. Annual American Home Economics Association Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Hanna, S., & Lindamood, S. (1976). Policy implications of housing research, seminar. Department of Home Management and Housing, Ohio State University.
Lindamood, S., & Hanna, S. (1976). Housing research in Alabama. American Association of Housing Educators annual meeting.
Lindamood, S. (1976). Women in the work force. Panel presentation at State Conference on Women, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.
Lindamood, S. (1976). Careers in housing. Session at Career Week Workshop, Auburn University.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW OR IN PREPARATION
Investment risk tolerance of same-sex couples.
The familial status prohibition in housing in the context of housing norms: occupancy norms imposed by courts, landlords, communities, and states.
A guide for users of research based on the Surveys of Consumer Finances.
The effects of credit constraints on the severity of consumer debt service burden.
Investment risk tolerance and portfolio choices of married couple households.
The effects of levels of risk tolerance on stock ownership.
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EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Founding Editor, Housing and Society. 1973-1982.
Associate Editor, Financial Counseling and Planning. 1997-98.
Editorial board, Home Economics Research Journal, 1985-1987.
Editor, NCSL Research and Committee Staff Section Newsletter. 1994-96.
Editorial Board, Financial Counseling and Planning. 1990-1999.
Staff member, The Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, a publication of students of the College of Law, The Ohio State University. 1989-1991.
Editorial board, Housing and Society, 1982-1986.
Reviewer, Journal of Consumer Affairs, 1980-1988.
Reviewer of Educational Material for U.S. Census Bureau, 1982-1987. Materials prepared for classroom use of census data.
Desk Editor, The Tartan, student newspaper of Carnegie-Mellon University. 1967-1968.
TESTIMONY PRESENTED
Proposed FTC Mobile Home Sales and Service Trade Rule Regulation, testimony presented to Senator Ford's Consumer Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Science, Commerce and Transportation, August 20, 1980, Washington, D.C. Testimony entered into Congressional Record by Senator Bayh. August 27, 1980.
FTC's proposed Mobile Home TRR; written comments submitted to FTC. October 1980.
The National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards. Testimony presented to Congressman Gonzalez's Housing and Community Development subcommittee of the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs. September 10, 1981.
Impact of tax increment financing on city budgets. Testimony to House Committee on Local Government, Kansas Legislature. February, 1986.
Deposition in Butler County, Kansas, court case on zoning and housing alternatives (higher density and manufactured housing). July, 1985.
The reasonableness of a zoning law that excludes mobile homes. West Chester, PA. May 2, 1979. (Reiff Brothers v. East Vincent Township).
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Chair of Faculty Senate Committee on Salaries and Fringe Benefits, 1986-1987. Prepared report on status of faculty salaries compared to other institutions and comparable professions. Delivered report to all members of legislature and met with legislative committee. The report resulted in a special fund being established to adjust salaries (above cost of living) during the following legislative session.
Social Science Subcommittee of the Graduate Council, Kansas State University, 1982 - 1986. Elected to membership by graduate faculty in social science area across the university. Responsible for selecting faculty for membership in three levels of graduate faculty and promoting to higher levels.
Chair of Search Committee, Design Researcher/faculty member, Clothing Textiles and Interior Design (CTID), 1985-86.
Dean’s Advisory Committee. Elected by department faculty as the representative on committee to advise Dean of Human Ecology. 1985-87.
Committee on Publicity, Home Economics PhD Program, 1985.
Committee on advocacy role of Faculty Senate in Faculty Salary Increases. Report transmitted to Faculty Senate. 1984.
Committee to review PhD Program, College of Home Economics. Report, consisting of 26 recommended changes, distributed Spring 1985. Changes voted upon, Fall 1985.
Board of Overseers, Nontraditional Studies Program, K-State, 1980-83.
Search Committee for Dean of College of Home Economics, 1982-83.
CTID department name change committee, 1985.
College Course and Curriculum Committee, 1977-1981. Chair, 1979-1981.
College of Home Economics Goals Committee, 1981-82.
Search Committee for Associate Director of Cooperative Extension, 1980.
Advisor to Student Senate group on housing, assisted in preparing landlord/tenant guide. Auburn University, 1975-1977.
Chair of College Curriculum revision committee, College of Home Economics, Auburn University, 1975-1976.
NATIONAL, STATE, AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
National Service
HUD's National Manufactured Home Advisory Council. Consumer member. 24 person council representing industry, state government, and consumers. Met quarterly to evaluate existing and proposed HUD construction code for manufactured housing. Chaired fire safety, egress, and planning committee. 1978-1982.
National Institute of Building Sciences. Chairperson of Blue Ribbon Panel to review HUD research priorities. Panel consisted of invited representatives of building industry, academia, and building trades. Produced report The Federal Government Role in Housing Technology Research: An analysis of Responses to a Sampling of Building Community Viewpoints for the U.S. Senate Committee on Housing. 1982-1983.
Management board member (elected at large) of the Technology Division of the National Institute of Building Sciences. 1981 - 1983.
Invited Consumer representative, National Institute of Building Sciences Conference on regulatory process, Voluntary Action – Key to Constructive Regulation. October 1980.
Invited Panel member, Urban Land Institute's Development Choices for the 80s. September 1980.
Invited Participant, HUD Conference on Housing Costs, February 1979.
Conference on Housing Affordability, co-sponsored by the American Planning Association and HUD. Chicago. September, 1984.
League of Municipalities. Annual meeting, Indianapolis. November, 1984.
Participant in League of Municipalities, Congressional Forum on Urban Policy, Washington, D.C. March 1984.
Workshop on Housing and Land Use Law for Lawyers and Planners, sponsored by the American Planning Association, 1984.
State and Community
Mayor and city commissioner, Manhattan, Kansas. 1981 – 1987. Served six years as a city commissioner (elected at large) which included one term as mayor.
Co-chair, Citizens for the Quality of Life Bond Issue. Successful bond issue to build variety of facilities serving families. (Swimming pools, cycle trail, animal shelter, zoo facilities, softball fields, ice-skating rink, etc.). 1986.
Manhattan-Riley County Metropolitan Housing Authority. Board Member, 1981- 1987.
Riley County Board of Health. Member, 1984 – 1987.
Riley-Pottawatomie County long range planning committee. Member, 1985-87.
Chair, Pottawatomie Sites Task Force, 1985-1987. Committee formed to develop plan for housing on urban renewal sites.
Intergovernmental Steering Committee. Comprised of members of the school board, city commission, and county commission. Member 1981-87. Chair, 1985.
Task force on the future of rural communities in Kansas, Appointed by Governor Hayden, 1986.
National League of Cities annual meetings and annual Congressional Forums on Urban Policy, participant. 1982- 86.
Volunteer Consultant with Presbyterian Community Ministry, non-profit housing organization in Auburn, Alabama. 1975-76.
Volunteer consultant for Alabama Legislature Joint Committee on Housing, 1975-77. Prepared publication for legislators A Decent Home: Housing Problems in Alabama and policy Recommendations (co-authors Bock, Hanna)
Planned and coordinated with legislators and Montgomery Planning Department, statewide conference - Housing in Alabama: Problems and Prospects. Montgomery, Alabama, June 1977.
LEGISLATIVE STAFF SERVICE ACTIVITIES
National Conference of State Legislatures
(NCSL - professional association for legislators and legislative staff)
Vice-chair of NCSL Research and Committee Staff Section, 1995-96.
National Conference on State Legislatures (NCSL) National Meetings, participant, 1994-1996.
NCSL Assembly on State Issues, participated as one of two representatives (nationally) of Research Staff. 1994- 96.
NCSL National Policy Forums, participated as member of International Relations Committee and representative of research staff on national Staff Steering Section. 1995-96.
Participated in Senior Professional Development Seminar, Charleston SC. Classes for senior attorneys in areas including bill drafting, writing, presentations, research, interpreting research, dealing with difficult people. Sponsored by NCSL Research and Committee Staff Section and Legal Staff Section. September 1999.
Ohio
Legislative Service Commission (LSC) Continuing Legal Education committee, 1996 – present. Committee plans two, 3 hour continuing legal education classes annually as member of the Consortium of Public Attorneys. 300 attendees from around the state per class.
Chair of committee 2003 – present.
Public Attorney Consortium – LSC representative to group that guides the public CLE programs that consortium agencies provide. (2000 – present)
LAW COURSEWORK
(partial list of courses, semester hours)
Finance and financial management
Federal Income Taxation. 4 hours.
Gross income, business deductions, income splitting by private arrangement and trusts; timing of income and deductions; sales and other dispositions of property; capital gains and losses.
Gratuitous Transfers. 3 hours
Gifts, wills, trusts, intestate succession protection of spouse and other dependents.
Administration of Decedents’ Estates. 2 hours.
Traditional probate method of wealth transfer, selected comparisons with non-probate transfers.
Taxation of Gifts, Trusts, and Estates. 3 hours.
Federal income, gift, and estate taxation and donative transfers. Examines the tax effect of various arrangements and basic estate planning techniques.
Selected problems in the Wealth Transfer Process. 2 hours.
Seminar, current and emerging problems in the gratuitous transmission of property including Uniform Marital Property Act, a community property regime.
Research paper: An International Comparison of property rights of the surviving spouse: China, Japan, Canada, East Germany, United States and the United Kingdom.
Business Associations. 5 hours
Corporate legal and financial structures, corporate purposes and powers, the rules of the board, officers, shareholders and corporate government.
Secured Transactions. 3 hours.
Security interests in personal property. Business and consumer credits, chattel paper, and investment securities.
Debtor Creditor. 3 hours.
Relations between creditors and their debtors. Bankruptcy, debt collection, creditors’ legal remedies, and the rights of debtors.
Real Estate Finance. 3 hours.
Legal issues in residential and commercial real estate transactions. The lawyer and broker, commercial transfers, basic security transactions, junior or secondary financing, income taxation.
Legal Problems of Financial Information. 2 hours.
Accounting principles and legal issues concerning financial information.
Family and Policy Coursework
Juvenile Justice. 3 hours
The law applicable to children, including a study of agency and juvenile court procedural and substantive treatment of delinquent, neglected, abused, unruly, and dependent children.
Family Law. 3 hours.
Legal concerns in marital relationships including entrance into marriage, spousal relationships, annulment, divorce, custody, and post divorce financial arrangements.
Land Use Planning. 3 hours.
Restrictions imposed by public authorities on what may, must, or cannot be done with land or some interest closely related to land. Includes long-term private restrictions.
Law and Social Science. 3 hours.
Using empirical evidence in law.
Legislation Seminar. 2 hours.
Sources of legislation, legislative processes and statutory drafting and interpretation.
Research paper: Title insurance and the Ohio consumer: A proposal for regulatory reform.
A later version of this paper was published in Advancing the Consumer Interest.
Other Coursework
Contracts. 6 hours , Torts. 4 hours, Property. 6 hours, Legal Research. 2 hours, Constitutional. Law. 4 hours, Civil Procedure. 6 hours, Evidence. 4 hours, Criminal Procedure. 3 hours.