my background and experience I think

prepared me for this job in a way I did

not expect I started in Corporate

America and that gave me a great intro

into how the attorney mind works because

my job was actually working with

attorneys and doing their marketing and

all that kind of stuff for them but I

got to see how attorneys treated their

clients how clients felt about their

attorneys and then when I went into the

practice of law I did lots of different

areas I started at the public defender’s

office did criminal law I kind of found

out what my passions were by finding out

what my passions weren’t so I realized I

didn’t like criminal law very much I

didn’t like real estate law family laws

is just another word for divorce so that

wasn’t any fun when I got to a state

planning in Probate at the public

administrator’s office working for the

county and directly being appointed by

the Chief Justice of Adams County in

Colorado I got to see all the families

and the problems they were going through

and I got to help them through that and

it was then that I really found my

passion really just helping families see

the light at the end of the tunnel

putting plans together that kept them

out of court saved them money kept their

families together by stopping fights it

was amazing so now we have a firm where

that’s all we do and we get to say we’re

the lawyers that don’t Sue anybody so

having that experience at the public

administrator’s office was truly amazing

not a lot of Attorneys at all get that

experience there’s only a handful of

public administrators in each County in

Colorado but that let me see all the

plans from lots and lots of attorneys in

Colorado so I got to see what worked and

what didn’t and our firm built plans off

of that that work

thank you

yeah I have a real problem saying no to

people so lots of volunteer experience

uh started on the board of directors for

a little organization called inside the

orchestra which has since grown to

um really an international organization

that has deals with Spotify now but they

give music and arts education back to

kids who’ve had it taken away from them

I’m sure a lot of people are familiar

when budgets get cut at schools the

first thing to go is the music and arts

programs and we bring that back to those

schools so as president of that

Organization for a while I’ve since

stepped back and still obviously helped

them out but not on the board anymore I

am currently on the board of our North

Glenn Thornton Rotary Club rotary is an

awesome organization service above self

and everyone in there just volunteers

and gives back to the community I was

president of that as well and then now

I’m currently on the board of the Arc of

Adams County so we’ve probably seen

those art thrift stores out there each

County here in Colorado has an arm of

that thrift store that gives that money

back to the community so we help

individuals with intellectual and

developmental disabilities we advocate

for them we get them the services they

need because they’re really lacking in

services that can be provided for them

there’s not a lot of stuff out there to

help them and we try to provide that for

them very passionate about that I’ve

also been in different groups with the

bar association rules and forms

committee statutory revisions just

trying to stay up to speed on the law

and all the changes that are coming

through so that’s been helpful too