Admitted
1974, New York; 1975, District of Columbia; 1979, U.S. District Court,, District of Columbia; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court; 1989, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; 1992, Maryland; 1993, Virginia an
Law School
University of Michigan, J.D., cum laude, 1973
Law School Graduation Year
1973
College
Mount Holyoke College, A.B., with distinction, 1970
Memberships
Maryland State, Federal and American (Member, Sections of: Litigation, Criminal Justice, Labor and Employment Law, Torts and Insurance Practice, Business Law, International Law, Chair, International Criminal Law Committee of the Section of Criminal Justice, 1993-1996) Bar Associations; Assistant U.S. Attorneys Association of the District of Columbia (President, 1998-1999); The Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Trial Lawyers Association of the Washington Metropolitan Area; Washington Foreign Law Society; Consular Corps of Washington (Executive Committee, 1995-1998); Master of the Bench, The Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court.
Biographical
Author: The U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, Washington International Trade Association, Trade Trends, May/June 1988; Keeping Your Workplace Drug Free, Business and Health, August 1989; Prosecution, Not Warfare, The National Law Journal, December 10, 1990; Treaty Traps: How To Get Your Client Through the Maze of Extradition, Criminal Justice, Winter 1992; The Criminalization Theft: The Economic Espionage Act of 1996, 1 LSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, vol. 4, no2, Spring 1998. The Federal Trade Commission, Chelsea House, 1991; Contributor: The Department of Justice, Chelsea House, 1989. Instructor: Attorney General's Advocacy Institute, 1986-1987; Legal Education Institute, 1985-1986; National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1978, 1990, 1992—. Member: Judicial Conference of the District of Columbia, 1985-1988, 1991—; Judicial Conference of the District of Columbia Circuit, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000; Committee on Grievances, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1994—; Vice-Chair, 1996—; Board of Directors, Bar Association of the District of Columbia, 1996-1999, 2003— (Committee Chair of the Year, 1995); Board of Directors, Alumnae Association of Mount Holyoke College, 1986-1989, 1992-1995; Board of Governors, Federal City Club 1992—; Board of Directors, Anacostia Economic Development Corporation, 1993—. Trial Attorney and Deputy Assistant Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C., 1973-1979. Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1979-1985. Senior Trial Attorney, Office of International Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., 1985-1987.