Professor Kristine Mullendore, JD is a former Assistant Kent County Prosecutor who has been a member of the School of Criminal Justice/Legal Studies Program faculty since August of 1995. Her research and scholarship interests are varied and include diversity in the legal profession, civil law issues surrounding catastrophic terrorism, violence against women, and the sexual abuse of female inmates. She is actively engaged in a faculty leadership positions for the GVSU faculty in the Academic Senate and was awarded a Pew Teaching Excellence Award in 2005.