Admitted: 1984, Washington; 1990, Nevada
Law School: Boston University, J.D.
Member: Washoe County, Washington State and American (Member, Criminal Law Section) Bar Associations; State Bar of Nevada (Member, Public Lawyers and Family Law Sections); State Bar of California (Charter Member, International Law Section); Nevada District Attorneys Association; Nevada Women Lawyers; First Judicial District Bar Association (Former Secretary and Treasurer).
Biography: Alpha Delta Law; Alpha Kappa Alpha; Phi Alpha Delta. Blackstonians Pre-Law. Hans L. Huber Scholar. California State Scholar. Black Student in Public Administration. Member: Board of Governors, Student Bar Association; Black American Law Students Association; Public Affairs Students Association; Board of Directors, Business and Professional Women's Club, Los Angeles; Mid-Wilshire Chapter. Author: "Murder: How Much Corpus Delicti is Enough?," Washoe County Bar Publication; "The Writ," November 1996. Deputy District Attorney for District Attorney Richard A. Gammick, Criminal Division. Administrative Attorney, District Attorney and the Assistant District Attorney, Criminal Division. Lobbyist before the Legislature; Washoe County Domestic Violence Task Force Representative; Tobacco Coalition Representative. Director, Fraud Check Diversion Program. Negotiator, Washoe Public Attorneys Association. Grant Manager, Violence Against Women Act for the Nevada District Attorney's Association. Former Primary Prosecutor, Incline Village, Verdi, Gerlach and Wadsworth Justice Courts. Former Gang and Sexual Assault Prosecutor, Criminal Offenses Occurring, Washoe County, Nevada. Member: Nevada District Attorney's Association Faculty, Ethics for Prosecutors, September, 1997; Nevada Prosecutors Conference on Domestic Violence, April 1996. Coordinator and Moderator, Nevada District Attorney's Association's "Conference in Criminal, Civil, Legislative and Ethical Issues Affecting the Prosecutor," September 1997. Advisory Board Member, Death Penalty Resource Center, National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada. Coordinator and Faculty, Nevada District Attorney's Association's Conference, "Domestic Violence, a Medi-Legal Perspective," May 1998. Assigned to Domestic Violence Protection Team, Felony Team and Misdemeanor Team. Administrative Attorney for: Commissioner Stephen Wiel, 1989-1992; Commissioner Galen D. Denio, 1992. Continuing Education: The Nevada Judiciary Family Violence Conference, 1993; National College of District Attorney's Evidence for Prosecutors, 1993; Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's Gang Conference, 1994; State Bar of Nevada, Legislative Update, 1995; National College of District Attorney's National Conference on Domestic Violence, 1995; The Nevada District Attorney's Association's "Ethics for Prosecutors," 1995; The Nevada Network Against Domestic Violence," Celebrating Our Diversity," 1996; The Nevada District Attorney's Association's "Nevada Prosecutors Conference on Domestic Violence," 1996; The Nevada District Attorney's Association's Conference on Criminal, Civil, Legislative and Ethical Issues, 1997; Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's 6th Annual Western State's Sexual Assault/Abuse Seminar, 1997; Nevada District Attorney's Association's Conference, "Domestic Violence, a Medi-Legal Perspective," May 1998; Nevada District Attorneys' Conference, 1999-2007; High Profile Criminal Cases, 2008, DUI Cases, 2006; Nevada State Bar Family Law Conference, 2009. Former District Attorney, Washoe County.
Born: Queens, New York