so when I first passed the bar in 2007 I

worked for the Tennessee Department of

children’s services I worked in as

assistant general counsel for three

years and then I was promoted to a

supervising attorney in Nashville for

three years and then I moved into the

DCS central office and was a director of

Community Partnerships and special

advisor to a Deputy Commissioner in the

office of child safety so for about 10

years I worked for the department of

children’s services doing Child Welfare

Law and policy and then since that time

I’ve been retained and court appointed

to represent parents and children in

dependency cases in Tennessee I did it I

worked for my own law firm and I did

court appointed work in addition to

other family law cases when I moved to

Oregon I worked for a law firm that had

a Public Defense contract and so I did

court appointed representation of

children and adults and now I primarily

do family law and retained Juvenile and

DHS cases