- Occupation: Santa Clara County Government Attorney
- 15 years legal experience; supervised and handled thousands of felony cases
- Argued successfully before the California Supreme Court
- Worked hard to ensure fair treatment of the mentally ill and develop treatment alternatives
- Instrumental in reducing felony drug cases awaiting trial and successful rehabilitaion of drug offenders
- Appeared in PBS broadcast "Crime & Punishment in America"
- Graduated Santa Clara University Law School and Admitted to the Bar, 1985
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- Commitment to fairness
- Restore public confidence in the judicial system
- Increase accessibility to the courts
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- San Jose Mercury News and the Metro newspapers
- Laurie Smith, Santa Clara County Sheriff
- Women Lawyers Committee of the Santa Clara County Bar Association
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