Practice Emphasis

Appellate

Practice Experience

• Associate Attorney
• Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, 1987-1992
  Contract attorney preparing appellate briefs and major trial memoranda for various Oregon attorneys, 1984-1987
• McMenamin, Joseph, Babener & Carpenter, 1980-1984
• The Honorable Betty Roberts
  Oregon Court of Appeals
  Law Clerk, 1978-1980

Education

• Lewis & Clark College
  Northwestern School of Law,
  J.D. cum laude, 1978, Law Review
• William Paterson College
  B.A English, 1973

Admitted to Practice

Oregon State Courts
U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Other

• Oregon State Bar
  Appellate Practice Section Executive Committee
• Ridgewood News, Ridgewood, New Jersey
  reporter, 1973-1974
• Evergreen School District
  Clark County, Washington:
  Past President, Fircrest Elementary PTO,
  Citizen Advisory Council, past member
• Weekly garden columnist for The Columbian newspaper
  Vancouver, Washington, 1993-1995, 1998-2000
• Master Gardener
  WSU Extension Division