About Me

I have spent my entire professional career working in public service in the states of North Carolina, Alabama, Ohio, and Kansas. I am the daughter of a retired US Airman, the wife of a former US Army JAG officer, the mother of a Winston-Salem Police Department officer, and the sister, relative, and friend to hundreds of veteran and active-duty servicemen and women. Service to community and to country has been my reality my entire life. SERVICE, in it's many forms, is what is most natural and instinctive to me!

My undergraduate degree is in government and politics. My law degree is from the University of North Carolina.  I met and married my husband,  Terry, while we were both students at Carolina Law.  After graduation from law school, I spent 13 years as the primary caregiver for our three sons.  Our sons are now adults.

Our family lived in Europe and the four states mentioned above as my husband served our country and the communities we lived in. In my lifetime, I have lived in several communities and experienced the laws and operation of several different local governments. What I learned from those experiences is that the education of our children has the greatest affect on whether we sustain and advance our communities and that the lack of equity in our courts and legal system has the greatest potential to destroy our communities. I've intentionally worked in both fields of education and law hoping to broaden the future of our children and young adults and hoping to decrease and eliminate the inequities in our legal system. 

As your Clerk of Court, I've focused on increasing the content knowledge of our clerks about our state rules of recordkeeping, criminal and civil laws and procedures, and customer service.  As a result of learning more comprehensive and consistent information, clerks are now able to more accurately maintain our court records and are also better able to educate our community about the procedures of the court system.  Better trained clerks and a more informed community are essential components of efforts to decrease inequities in our legal system.