I began my court reporting career at the Washington, D. C. Superior Court in 1969. During this phase of my career, the majority of reporters were men who did not look like me. After two years I transitioned to freelance reporting where I polished my skills to become one of the top expedited delivery reporters in the region. I also became a wife and mother of two sons. I reported several landmark cases and in the late seventies, with the advent of the first desktop computers, I was involved in the early developmental stages of computer-aided transcription.

In 1981 I accepted a staff position on the U. S. House of Representatives Corps of Reporters. In this position I provided daily copy transcripts for House committee and subcommittee hearings. I also traveled throughout America with members of Congress reporting hearings with their local constituents in 48 of the 50 states. In 1985, as the top producing reporter on the House Corps of Reporters, I was honored to report President Ronald Reagan's State of the Union Message. I was the first woman and the first person of color to achieve that honor.

In the late eighties, I was in need of a much better work/life balance. I resigned from the House Corp of Reporters. During this era, with the advent of laptop computers, I retrained and rebranded myself as a freelance real-time reporter, later becoming involved in captioning for the deaf and hearing impaired. I captioned many news broadcasts and conferences for the National Association for the Deaf. In 1994 I captioned then President Bill Clinton’s commencement address at Gallaudet University’s graduation ceremony. I have covered numerous international depositions in Asia, South America and Central America.

In 2002, after completing the very formidable task of raising and educating my husband and children, I realized that I needed massive change in my life. I got a divorce and relocated my home base from the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to Southern California. It took a few years of living in a few really gorgeous places before I found my perfect home and settled into my happy place in the Baldwin Hills-View Park area of Los Angeles. This is a good fit for me as I continue my international leisure travels, deposition business, professional speaking engagements, writing books, vocal performances and enjoying my robust social life. I must say life is uncommonly good!