Linda Valentini-Giulii, LAW ’23, is an Executive Public Policy Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. She graduated from LaSalle College with a B.A. in Psychology, and from Hahnemann Medical College with an M.S. and a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology. As part of her doctoral program, she had the privilege of studying child therapy with Miss Anna Freud at the Hampstead Clinic in London, England.
As an undergraduate, Linda was a houseparent in a residential treatment center and then assistant director of an outpatient child and family counseling center. Following her doctoral studies, Linda was a staff psychologist at, and then became the executive director of, a partial hospitalization program for preschool children. Later she took on the role of clinical supervisor at an outpatient mental health agency that specialized in the treatment of children and families.
For twenty-five years she was a special education hearing officer for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In that capacity, Linda presided over several thousand due process hearings; for most of that time she was the only non-attorney hearing officer in Pennsylvania. In that role, she has made numerous state and national presentations on child psychology, diagnostic psychological evaluation, and special education due process hearings to groups of parents, attorneys, special education hearing officers and administrative law judges.
Linda retired from her position as a hearing officer and in 2020 began to fulfill a lifetime ambition of attending law school. Her current interests lie in the areas of education, cybersecurity, and criminal prosecution.