ABOUT ME

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I grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and got my B.A. in history from Michigan State and my law degree from the University of Michigan. I practiced law for a brief stint at a big firm in Washington, D.C. and then moved to central Virginia, where I've been a federal judicial clerk, a small town general practice attorney handling everything from divorce to personal injury to criminal defense, and a local government attorney. I live way out in the country with my husband, my two sons, and my beagle Indiana Jones. 

Other Things I Like

  • Books: Pride and Prejudice, Outlander, The Hunger Games, Anne of Green Gables, Attachments, Looking for Alaska, Gone Girl, Big Little Lies, The Wife Between Us, The Lords of Discipline. And about a thousand more.
  • Movies: When Harry Met Sally..., White Christmas, West Side Story, Bridget Jones's Diary, Pride and Prejudice (ALL the versions), Clueless, Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Election, 13 Going on 30, Legally Blonde, Dangerous Liaisons, The Greatest Showman, Yesterday.
  • TV: Outlander, Stranger Things, Game of Thrones, The Mindy Project, The Big Bang Theory, Friends, The Office, Timeless, Big Little Lies, The Last Kingdom, The Handmaid's Tale, Parks and Recreation, Never Have I Ever, Criminal Minds
  • Tea. Lots of tea. Well, really anything with caffeine. Also coffee. And Coke Zero.
  • Clean laundry.
  • ​Old houses and their gardens.
  • Romance novels.
  • Hiking.
  • England.
  • Broadway musicals. 
  • ​Hoop skirts.
  • Sugar cookies, Cheezits, dried mango, and red licorice. I would exist on this diet if I thought I could.

I’ve had a pretty strange collection of non-lawyer jobs (more material!). Before law school, in no particular order and all before I was 24 years old, I was an ice cream scooper, a telemarketer, a Civil War living history reenactor, a home alarm monitor, a cafeteria plate-scraper, a paralegal, a papergirl, a U.S. Senate intern, and a receptionist.