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Profile
- Proven ability to make difficult and just decisions.
- Dedicated to upholding the law.
- Excellent rapport with law enforcement, defense bar and judiciary.
- Extensive experience working on behalf of crime victims.
Personal qualities
- Energetic and determined, passionate about fair treatment for all, open to trying new approaches to resolve community problems.
Personal background
- Santa Clara County resident since 1981, married to a San Jose police sergeant, two children and two stepchildren. Active community volunteer, whose interests include spending time with family and friends, jogging, reading, dancing and music.
Professional Experience
- Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney (1985 - current)
- Current assignment: Supervisor of the Sexual Assault Unit
- More than 14 years experience prosecuting criminals in court.
- First deputy district attorney (DA) to specialize in prosecuting sex offenders who fail to register their residence with local authorities.
- Represented abused and neglected children in juvenile dependency court.
- Trial attorney in sexual assault, juvenile delinquency, drunk driving, and burglary/theft cases.
Board of Reappraisers, Committee of Bar Examiners, State
Bar of California (1991 - current)
- One of 9 members statewide. Responsible for developing questions for and supervising the grading of the
California General Bar Examination.
Consultant, National Conference of Bar Examiners (1989-current)
- Leads workshops for bar examiners throughout the U.S. whose jurisdictions give multi-state essay and performance examinations.
Private Practice Attorney (1980 - 1985)
- Criminal defense, general civil and litigation practice
Professional Service
- President, Santa Clara County Government Attorneys Association (1994-1999)
- Nominated, Woman of Achievement(labor),1997
- Lecturer: Law Enforcement agencies including San Jose and SAFE Task Force
- Sexual assault prosecution
- Sex offender registration prosecution
- Courtroom demeanor
- Prosecution of domestic violence
- Lecturer:YWCA Rape Crisis, Mid-Peninsula YWCA Rape Crisis, and Community Solutions rape crisis hotline volunteers, San Jose State University Administration of Justice Bureau
- Sexual assault prosecution
- Member
- California District Attorneys Association
- Santa Clara County Bar Association
- California Sexual Assault Investigators Association
Community Service
- Parent volunteer, Briarwood Elementary School, Guadalupe Elementary School, Dartmouth Middle School, Presentation High School, and Bellarmine College Preparatory
- Mediator/Arbitrator, Neighborhood Small Claims Project
- Domestic Violence Information Project, Santa Clara County Bar Association
- Board of Directors, WOMA Battered Women's Shelter (now Next Door, Solutions to Domestic Violence)
- Volunteer judge, University of Santa Clara Moot Court tournament
- Volunteer judge, high school mock trial and speech tournaments
- Site Council, Guadalupe Elementary School
- Advisory Budget Committee, Union School District
Education
- JD, Southwestern University School of Law, 1980
- BA in Spanish with Honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1975
- Admitted to California Bar, 1980
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