Mary Hatfield Lowe was elected to the board of directors of the American Association for Paralegal Education at the annual conference in Phoenix on Nov. 8.
Lowe is the coordinator for NorthWest Arkansas Community College’s American Bar Association-approved Paralegal Studies Program. She has a law degree and doctorate in higher education from the University of Arkansas and has been at NWACC since 2004.
Lowe will be the director for the South Central Region of the United States. With more than 400 members, the American Association for Paralegal Education is the nation’s largest and continually operating organization dedicated to promoting quality paralegal education. The organization’s membership includes hundreds of universities, colleges and other institutions of higher learning throughout the United States and Canada.