I was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. I received my undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University and my law degree from the University of Cincinnati. After graduating from law school and taking the Ohio Bar exam, I immediately began preparing for my move to New York. As a young girl I had dreamed of someday living in New York, because “if you can make it there” ...

And now I had my chance. I lived and worked in New York and Connecticut for the next 30 years. I started in 1985 with a large accounting and tax firm and moved three years later to an investment banking firm owned by General Electric. I would be fortunate enough to spend the next twenty-seven years in a variety of roles with GE. My work at GE included the opportunity to travel all over the world as an international tax counsel, and the opportunity to do two tours living and working in London.

My work at GE also afforded me the ability to financially support a variety of philanthropic causes important to me. After retiring from GE in 2015, I hoped to have the opportunity to support these causes with my time and professional skills as well. I have volunteered as a Guardian ad Litem for children removed from their homes, taught financial literacy to single mothers and mentored at risk youth on their path to college. I have been very involved with the Bay Park Conservancy in Sarasota, Florida in the efforts to preserve the natural beauty of Sarasota Bay and with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at The Ohio State University. And I was lucky enough to be one of the first “investors” in National Sawdust. I hope that I will now be able to help in other ways.

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