Admitted
1981, California; U.S District Court, Northern and Eastern Districts of California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Law School
Pepperdine University, J.D., 1981
Law School Graduation Year
1981
College
The American University, B.A., 1978
Memberships
Bar Association of San Francisco; Alameda County and Contra Costa County Bar Associations; State Bar of California.
Biographical
Phi Delta Phi. Presentations: Student to Student Sexual Harassment: What Now? CASBO Conference, 1998; The Anatomy of a Lawsuit, CASBO Conference, 2000; Legal Aspects Of A Public Records Request; School Violence: The Future of School Litigation; Sexual Harassment Investigations; Mold: The New Frontier (also presented at NOR CAL yearly conference, 2000, Napa), East Bay Schools Insurance Group Yearly Conference, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000; The Effective Use of Outside Counsel, Parma Conference, December, 2000. Judge Pro Tem, Municipal Court, City and County of San Francisco, 1989—. Arbitrator, Alameda, Costra Costa and San Francisco County Superior Courts. Settlement Conference Referee, Alameda County Superior Court. Early Neutral Case Evaluator and Mediator, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, specializing in mediating issues relating to public entities, such as wrongful termination and discrimination. Vice President, 1999-2000 and President, 2001—, San Ramon Valley Education Foundation. Selected as Patient advocate, Children's Oncology Group (COG), a national organization that establishes nationwide cancer treatment standards and protocols for the treatment of childhood cancer, 2001—.