DOEPC Monthly Meeting
Meeting: Tuesday, March 14, 2017
11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Hope Valley Country Club
SPEAKER: LINDA FUNKE JOHNSON, Attorney at Law (NC, HI, CT)
Co-Chair of The Legislative Committee, Estate Planning, NCBA
Senter, Stephenson, Johnson, PA
Topic: LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: 2017 LONG SESSION
About Linda Funke Johnson
Linda F. Johnson is the attorney sole shareholder of Senter, Stephenson, Johnson, P.A. Her principal areas of practice are Estate Planning and Estate Administration, Real Property Transactions, Guardianship and Taxation. Linda is licensed to practice law in North Carolina, Hawaii and Connecticut. She received her Specialization Designation from The North Carolina Bar In Estate Planning and Probate in 2007. She is a Member of The Wake County Estate Planning Council and Tenth Judicial District. She is a Founding Member of The Wake County Attorney Breast Cancer Group.
Linda is currently serving as a Council Member of The Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law Section of The North Carolina Bar Association. She is the past editor of The Will and The Way, published by The North Carolina Bar Association. She has authored several articles for that publication and served as Vice-Chair of The Will and The Way Committee; Co-Editor of The North Carolina Bar Association's NC Estate Administration Manual from 2005 to 2008 and Chapter Editor from 2004 to the present. She is a volunteer with The Pro Bono Commitee of The North Carolina Bar Association working on The Wake County Hospice Project (1998 to present) and with the Wills for Heroes Program (2008). She teaches classes concerning Probate Law and Real Property for The North Carolina Bar Association. She is a Member of the Estate Planning, Elder Law and Real Property Law Sections of The North Carolina Bar Association.
Linda was voted best attorney in Fuquay-Varina in 2001, 2008, 2011, and 2012 in a survey conducted by the F-V Independent. In 2011, she was voted Outstanding Citizen of the Year by The Fuquay-Varina Chamber of Commerce. Her civic involvement is outlined on the community page of her website.
Linda is a 1985 graduate of Quinipiac College, School of Law in Hamden, Connecticut. Earlier, she received a BS in Business Management and minor in German from Fairfield University, in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1982. She attended Wagner University in Bregnez, Austria in her junior year of undergraduate study.
She married Steve Johnson in 1990 and they have two daughters, Kelsey and Dana. Linda has been a breast cancer survivor since 2003.
Linda's Education:
Quinnpiac University School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1985
Fairfield University, Bachelor of Science in Business Manager, German Minor, 1982
