Jeanne L. Surface, EdD, is an associate professor of educational leadership in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Nebraska Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. She received her doctorate from the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming, USA and is an experienced superintendent, principal, and classroom teacher. Jeanne was honored to be a member of cohort three at John Goodlad’s Institute for Educational Inquiry. She has chaired numerous dissertation committees, published the book Rural Superintendents based on her dissertation, written over eight book chapters and over twenty articles, and regularly given presentations in the areas of leadership, public school law, and rural education. Jeanne has also written over five hundred law briefs for the Education Law Association. Her teaching areas are leadership, public school law, special education law, and qualitative research methods.
