EMPLOYMENT

1981- Present Private practice specializing in trusts and estates. Serve as fiduciary and counsel to fiduciary in estates and trusts of varying sizes. Represented state-wide umbrella organization of municipal offices on Aging. Served on Governor's Commission Studying Guardianship. Testify before Alexandria City Council and Virginia's General Assembly on problems of elderly. Frequent lecturer to legal and medical education seminars.

1979-1980 Deputy Chief Counsel, Economic Development Administration (EDA), Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. Managed 40 attorneys giving legal guidance to EDA's aid programs for businesses.

1975-1979 Counsel, Committee on Government Operations, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. Conceptualize legislation; advise Committee and floor manage bills presented to House of Representatives.

1974-1975 Drinker, Biddle & Reath (formerly Tufo & Johnson, Washington, D.C., and New York, New York) real estate transactions specialty. Negotiated and drafted limited partnership agreements and contracts for financing and renovation of multi-family apartment units.

1972-1973 Housing Development Corporation, General Counsel, Washington, D.C. Negotiated with land owners, architects, engineers, contractors and government agencies (especially H.U.D.) to arrange for redevelopment of multi-family apartment units and single-family homes.

EDUCATION

1992 Visiting researcher, Harvard Law School Graduate Program and Harvard Medical School (psychiatric rotation with 3rd- and 4th-year medical students).

1973-1974 The London School of Economics and The University of London. Ph.D. Candidate in Housing Finance.

1968-1971 The George Washington University Law School.

1965-1968 The George Washington University - B.A. in Economics.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND HONORS

1. Adjunct Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School, teaching Law & Psychiatry.
2. Appointed by Governor to Joint Legislative Subcommittee Studying Legal Guardianship. Frequently work with legislators in formulating legislation in the probate and elderly area. Frequently testify at Virginia General Assembly and Alexandria City Council on elderly concerns.
3. Producer and host of Maturity, a cable television program on Channel 10 in Alexandria, Virginia, geared to the mature audience. Program produced in conjunction with the City of Alexandria Commission on Aging.
4. Host and author of Maturity Notes, a daily public service announcement on cable Channel 10 in Fairfax County, Virginia.
5. Author, Determining Competency - Information Attorneys Can Use, and Evaluating Testamentary Capacity of an Elderly Client During the Initial Will Interview, for McGraw-Hill's Elder Care/Law Newsletter. Estate Planning for Artists, for Manquette magazine.
6. Member of Virginia State Bar Commissioner's Committee studying the issue of lawyers serving as fiduciaries.
7. Vice President, Northern Virginia Estate Planning Council, 1995-1996.
8. Member, U.S. Delegation to United Nations Working Party Session on Housing, Building and Planning - Geneva, 1974. Discussed various financial mechanisms utilized by participant countries to spur residential development.
9. Frequent lecturer on aging topics to doctors, mental health workers, bar associations, church and community groups and senior centers. Frequent guest on cable television programs concerning aging issues.
10. Alexandria Port Packet newspaper columnist on aging issues and reviews of artistic shows.
11. Alexandria Health Services Corp. (Alexandria Hospital) - member.
12. Commission on Aging, City of Alexandria - executive committee and legislative liaison.
13. Episcopal Church, Diocese of Virginia, Northern Virginia Working Group on Aging; lay reader at St. Paul's Church in Old Town Alexandria.
14. Board of Directors of Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association (Athenaeum).
15. Member of Virginia and District of Columbia Bar Associations.