I enjoy meeting clients at their work sites to better understand their business and their needs. 

• Practice focus: Concentrates on representing employers/management in Labor and Employment Law matters, Workers’ Compensation, and Municipal Law. Representation and defense of property owners and property managers in fair-housing discrimination cases.
• Joined Carlile Patchen & Murphy LLP in October 1996
• Appointed as City Attorney to Grandview Heights, Ohio, January 2006
• Appointed by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to serve as mediator
• Ohio Management Lawyers Association (Steering Committee), Ohio Municipal Attorneys Association (Board of Directors), Columbus Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, American Bar Association. Past Chair of the Columbus Bar Association's Labor & Employment Law Committee and the Community Service Committee (Board of Governors, 2005-2009); Ohio State Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Section Council
• Children's Hunger Alliance, St. Stephen's Community House, Board of Directors of Members First Credit Union; immediate past president, Grandview/Marble Cliff Area Chamber of Commerce
• Speaks and writes extensively on employment law topics and creates customized on-site training for companies
• 2008 Northwest Woman of the Year award recipient; consistently listed in Ohio Super Lawyers (Corporate Counsel list, Employment Law list, Top 25 Women in Columbus list); listed in Best Lawyers in America; listed in Super Lawyers Business Edition 2011 (Employment & Labor); Columbus Bar Association Community Service award recipient; Ohio Diversity Council's 2009 Most Powerful and Influential Women in Ohio award recipient
• Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Bowling Green State University, 1985; attended Georgetown University while working at the U.S. House of Representatives; Fulbright Fellowship, Universität Innsbruck; J.D., University of Toledo, 1991
• Admitted: 1991, Ohio; 1992, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio; 2004, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
• Enjoys gardening, traveling, reading and movies; speaks French and German
• Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV® Preeminent™*

*The Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings serve as an objective indicator that a lawyer has the highest ethical standards and professional ability. A rating of AV® Preeminent™ denotes that an attorney has achieved the status of “Very High to Preeminent” legal ability based on recommendations from the attorney’s peers. AV® Preeminent™ and BV® Distinguished™ are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.

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