My husband Bill and I moved to Summit 19 years ago with our two young children.   I left my job as a child abuse prosecutor in New Hampshire when they were born and I was eager to become involved in our new town of Summit.   I found opportunities immediately and have been an active community volunteer and leader ever since.   Bill and I now have four teenagers, who all attend Summit public schools.

 

I grew up in Sterling, Virginia.   I attended the University of Virginia and earned a B.S. in Commerce while working to pay for school, founding a sorority and volunteering for the Charlottesville community through Madison House.    Upon graduating I worked for a law firm in Washington, D.C. and was the head paralegal on two large international litigations. During this time I continued my volunteer work with local domestic violence shelters.  I returned to the University of Virginia for law school, again working to pay for school while committing time to a number of public interest law projects.

 

After graduating law school, I worked for three years as a felony child abuse prosecutor for the Merrimack County Attorney’s office in Concord, New Hampshire before moving to New York in 1998 and Summit in 2002.