About Jae M.
Jae M. Lee trained as a lawyer on two continents. She earned an Abogada degree from Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata in 1988 and later received a J.D. from Washburn University in 1994. Those academic chapters gave her a bilingual and bicultural foundation she has carried into a varied legal career.
Her early work was rooted in legal aid. In 1995 she joined Kansas Legal Services as a staff lawyer in Garden City. She returned to that organization in 1998, serving clients in both Garden City and Dodge City. Those years involved a steady flow of civil matters, consumer issues and family law work for low-income residents of southwestern Kansas.
In 1996 she spent time in Honolulu as an associate at the Law Office of Joseph I. Brosh. That stint in Hawaii broadened her courtroom experience and exposed her to a different set of client needs and state rules. By 2000 she was back in Kansas, working as an Assistant County Lawyer in the Ford County Lawyer’s Office in Dodge City, where she handled local government matters and provided counsel on county-level legal questions.
The early 2000s brought a mix of public-service and private-practice roles. In 2003 she was listed as counsel at Curtis E. Campbell Chartered in Cimarron, Kansas, and took on a community-facing position as a shelter manager at the Crisis Center of Dodge City. Those positions placed her at the intersection of legal advocacy and on-the-ground social services.
Lee holds admission to practice in Hawaii, Kansas and Texas. She has maintained long-standing involvement in professional groups. She has been a member of the Hawaii Bar Association since 1995 and joined the Kansas Women Lawyers Association the same year. Since 2014 she has been active in the Asian American Bar Association, which reflects both her background and her ongoing engagement with lawyer networks focused on diversity and community issues.
Colleagues describe her work as pragmatic and client-centered. Her record shows repeated returns to public-interest law alongside spells in private practice and county government. That mixture has given her experience across civil legal aid, local government representation and direct-service roles tied to domestic violence and shelter services.
As of 2026 she practices law across multiple jurisdictions and handles matters that arise at the crossroads of civil advocacy and local government law. Her current practice centers on civil and public-interest matters.
