Jill Kissell, Vice President
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Jill Kissell is the current Vice President of NALTEA.
She has been a member since 2006, earning her NALTEA Master Abstractor Designation at the New Orleans conference on January 20, 2008, and has served NALTEA in many capacities, including Director, Secretary, Vice President and President. Jill began her career in real estate research in the legal industry working as secretary and then legal assistant for several law firms over a 20+ year time span.
In the 1980s, while working for a real estate/probate/income tax attorney, Jill assisted in the preparation of the first Iowa State Bar Association Probate Manual. It was with this same law firm that Jill learned what an “abstract of title” is, what history the abstract should contain, and how to examine an abstract for status of title. Over the course of her career as a legal assistant, Jill gained expertise in several different areas, including real estate.
In 1993 she began free-lancing as a legal assistant, and in 1997 she was approached by a start-up title company looking for legal assistants to do “current owner” searches in Iowa. She began doing these title searches on a part-time basis, while working full time as a legal assistant, until 2003 when the workload as a title searcher far out-paced her legal assistant responsibilities, so she quit her full-time job, started A-1 Abstracting & Research, bought an ad on Source of Title, and the rest is history.
On a personal level, Jill is a past Master Gardener and gardens avidly at home. Heirloom tomatoes are one of her favorites, but her three large gardens on her two-acre plot of ground produce many yummy veggies and fruits, along with beautiful perennial and annual flowers that provide great habitat for multiple species of birds and bees and other wildlife. This year the deer have made a comfy home in her corn patch! Jill is looking forward to retirement in the next couple of years when she plans to travel and spend lots of time with her family in Oregon, Illinois and Indiana, and her friends in California, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, and many other spots throughout the country. Towards that end she is constantly keeping her eye out for an abstractor who enjoys the challenge of commercial and complex searches to fill her shoes when she retires. A NALTEA certified abstractor would be her first choice!!! If you know someone, CALL JILL.
She has been a member since 2006, earning her NALTEA Master Abstractor Designation at the New Orleans conference on January 20, 2008, and has served NALTEA in many capacities, including Director, Secretary, Vice President and President. Jill began her career in real estate research in the legal industry working as secretary and then legal assistant for several law firms over a 20+ year time span.
In the 1980s, while working for a real estate/probate/income tax attorney, Jill assisted in the preparation of the first Iowa State Bar Association Probate Manual. It was with this same law firm that Jill learned what an “abstract of title” is, what history the abstract should contain, and how to examine an abstract for status of title. Over the course of her career as a legal assistant, Jill gained expertise in several different areas, including real estate.
In 1993 she began free-lancing as a legal assistant, and in 1997 she was approached by a start-up title company looking for legal assistants to do “current owner” searches in Iowa. She began doing these title searches on a part-time basis, while working full time as a legal assistant, until 2003 when the workload as a title searcher far out-paced her legal assistant responsibilities, so she quit her full-time job, started A-1 Abstracting & Research, bought an ad on Source of Title, and the rest is history.
On a personal level, Jill is a past Master Gardener and gardens avidly at home. Heirloom tomatoes are one of her favorites, but her three large gardens on her two-acre plot of ground produce many yummy veggies and fruits, along with beautiful perennial and annual flowers that provide great habitat for multiple species of birds and bees and other wildlife. This year the deer have made a comfy home in her corn patch! Jill is looking forward to retirement in the next couple of years when she plans to travel and spend lots of time with her family in Oregon, Illinois and Indiana, and her friends in California, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, and many other spots throughout the country. Towards that end she is constantly keeping her eye out for an abstractor who enjoys the challenge of commercial and complex searches to fill her shoes when she retires. A NALTEA certified abstractor would be her first choice!!! If you know someone, CALL JILL.