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- I have a wide range of employment experiences both in and outside the legal profession plus a solid educational background. I did not start law school until I was forty. I dropped out of college in my early 20s, got married, and spent the next sixteen years being a wife, mother, and community volunteer. After I got divorced I returned to school and obtained my undergraduate and law degrees. I consider the total of my varied experiences to be indispensable to being a good lawyer.
Legal Experience:
I have been licensed to practice law in Oregon since 1991. Before that, I was a staff attorney for the Oregon Worker's Compensation Board for two years and a judicial law clerk for the judges in Lincoln County, Oregon, for one year. Prior to attending law school, I worked as a clerk for the late Oklahoma state court Judge Alan J. Couch in Norman, Oklahoma. While in law school, I worked in the Washington County District Attorney's office as a certified law clerk, in the Washington County offices of the Metropolitan Public Defenders as a certified law clerk, and for Lee & Associate, a Portland law firm that served the city’s Korean-American business community. When I went into private practice in 1991, I worked for Lee & Associate, and then opened my own practice in 1993.
Non-legal experience:
Wife, mother, grandmother, carpenter, auditor, horse breeder-trainer, secretary, title officer.
Bar Admissions:
Oregon State Bar, 1991
United States District Court, District of Oregon, 1992
United States Court Of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 1996
Education:
Lewis and Clark College Northwestern School of Law,
- Portland,Oregon, 1987, Doctor of Jurisprudence
- University Of Oklahoma, 1984, Bachelor of Arts
- (Social Work and Sociology)
- Ohio State University, 1965
- Chandler School For Women, 1964-65
- University of Arizona, 1963-64
- Maumee Valley Country Day School, Toledo, Ohio, 1963
Organizations And Memberships:
Oregon State Bar Association
- Member of Consumer Law, Family Law, Litigation, and Real Estate & Land Use sections of the Oregon State Bar Association
- Multnomah County Bar Association
- Oregon Trial Lawyers Association
- Oregon Consumer League
- The Nature Conservancy.
Personal Information:
Born 1945, Schenectady, New York, the daughter and granddaughter of lawyers. Mother of two grown children in their thirties; and grandmother with grandbaby photos (if asked).
Once divorced. Married to second husband, Jon French, since 1983.
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