Stephen Erickson J.D.

Stephen Erickson, J.D., director and co-founder
Steve is a licensed attorney who has mediated many types of disputes in private practice since 1977. He received the Bush Leadership Fellowship Award for the study of mediation and family social science in 1979 and is a founder and second president of the Academy of Family Mediators. He is nationally known as a mediation trainer and speaker, and has published articles and books on the subject. He was a past member of the Board of Directors of the international Association for Conflict Resolution and was the Co-Chair of its Certification Taskforce Committee. He and his partner Marilyn McKnight were awarded the Distinguished Mediator Award by the Academy of Family Mediators for their outstanding contributions to the field of mediation. They have co-authored five successful books on mediation: Family Mediation Casebook (1988), The Children’s Book (1992), Mediating Divorce: A Client’s Workbook (1998), Mediating Divorce: A Trainer’s Manual (1998), and The Practitioner’s Guide to Mediation (2001). Steve has been adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas Law School and the William Mitchell College of Law.