PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Riegels Campos & Kenyon LLP 1999-2007; Diepenbrock, Wulff, Plant & Hannegan, LLP, Sacramento, California (1977-1998).

Public contract protest disputes handled include, as examples, representation of Marketware as awardee of State Computer Store Contract; EDS as protestant and then awardee of HWDC State Fingerprint Imaging Contract; ASIAN, Inc. as awardee of PUC Clearinghouse contract; AmeriData as awardee of State Computer Store Contract; Polaroid Corporation as awardee of the DMV contract for driver licenses, identification cards and salesperson licenses; Sequent Computer as awardee of a Teale Data Center computer contract; Grove Investment as protestant of Department of Health Services office building procurement; AT&T-NCR as protestant of electronic data processing contract with Cal. State University, San Marcos; Ernst & Young as protestant of California Integrated Waste Management Board consulting contracts award; and EDS as awardee of the MediCal Fiscal Intermediary Contract.

Retained by Bureau of State Audits as lawyer with public contract expertise to advise concerning audit of Oracle Contract.

Published public contract decisions on appeal include: NBS Imaging Systems, Inc. v. Board of Control, 60 Cal. App. 4th 328 (1997)

BAR MEMBERSHIPS

Admitted United States Supreme Court (1984); Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1982); Eastern District of California (1977); State Bar of California (1977).

EDUCATION

University of California, Davis School of Law. J.D. 1977. Managing Editor, Symposium on Legal Problems of Local Government, 10 U.C. Davis Law Review 1976-77; Comment author 1976, The Opinion Rule in California and Federal Courts, 9 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 233 (1976).

University of California, Santa Cruz. A.B. 1974 Community Studies (independent major in political theory and economics). College Honors.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND HONORS

Awarded American Inns of Court and Ninth Circuit Professionalism Award 2007.

Named a "Super Lawyer," one of the Top 5% of Northern California Attorneys in the 2009 - 2010 Northern California Super Lawyers balloting, research and blue ribbon review process; included in top 100 Super Lawyers in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010; top 50 Female Super Lawyers in 2004-2010.

Sacramento County Bar Association - Distinguished Lawyer 2003

American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, elected 2009 (limited to 500 members in the United States).

California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, elected 1997; Northern California Membership Committee 2003-2005; Secretary-Treasurer 2005-06; Second Vice President 2006-07; First Vice President 2007-08; President 2008-09.

Best Lawyers in America, First Amendment Law (1991-present); Appellate Law (2005-present); AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell; named one of Sacramento's Top 40 Lawyers, Sacramento Magazine April 1999; Sacramento Business Journal, "Women Who Mean Business" September 1997 15 Women Making a Difference.

UCD School of Law, Distinguished Alumnus Award 1997; UCD Alumni Association Citation for Excellence 1997.

Women Lawyers of Sacramento and Sacramento County Bar Association, Frances Newell Carr Achievement Award 1997.

Sacramento County Bar Association, Humanitarian of the Year Award 1996.

Society of Professional Journalists, Central Valley Chapter, 1995 Freedom of Information Award.

CIVIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

ABA, Public Contracts Section, member 1999-2000.

University of California, Davis, School of Law - Alumni Board of Directors, member 2003-.

UC Davis Health System, Leadership Council 1995-present; elected Executive Committee 1998, Chair 2002-2003.

Milton L. Schwartz American Inn of Court, member 1992-present, Executive Committee 1999-present.

Sacramento County Bar Association, Sacramento Lawyer Editorial Policy Committee 1999-2002; Co-Chair Executive Director Search Committee 1997; Bar Council 1994-95; Judicial Evaluations Committee 1986-87; Bench Bar Media Committee, Bar Co-Chair 1985-87; The Docket Editorial Policy Committee, Chair 1986-87; Nominating Committee 2000-2001, 1988-1989; Long Range Plan & Bylaws Committee 1991-92.

Legal Services of Northern California, Inc., member of Board of Directors 1989-1995, Executive Committee member 1991-1995.

RELATED PUBLICATIONS AND TEACHING

State Procurement Officers Forum (Dept. General Services, panel on protests) April 1997 (Napa).

ABA Public Contract Section Open Forum on California State Bid Protests, co-chair and presenter November 1996 (Sacramento).

Department of General Services Roundtable on Procurement Reform, Procurement 2000, panelist May 1995 (Sacramento).

DGS, Committee for Evaluation of Information Technology Task Force Procurement Recommendations 1995.