Bar Association Admissions:
State of Nevada, 1978
United States District Court, District of Nevada, 1979

Education:
University of Puget Sound School of Law
Tacoma, Washington
May 1978, Juris Doctor (Law Degree)

University of Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
May, 1975, B.A. in Speech Communications.

Dorothy has a personal interest in Bankruptcy that goes back to her own childhood. Her parents had money problems and by the time she was 8 years old, she was lying to bill collectors to protect her parents.  Dorothy has never forgotten how ashamed she was by this experience. When in college, her father’s business failed and he had to file Bankruptcy.

He still remembers that his attorney was late for Court and that the Referee (as the Trustee’s were called back then) scolded him because of his lawyer’s mistake. Dorothy finds helping people through Bankruptcy very rewarding and a way to fix the problems of the past.

Dorothy's husband, Victor, died in 1989 under tragic circumstances and his medical debts led Dorothy to have to file bankruptcy herself. Her current partner, Joe, is disabled due to a brain injury, and receives social security disability benefits.