My Consumer Protection background includes: 

 

• Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow with Montana Legal Services Association's Consumer Unit, overseeing MLSA's self-help bankruptcy program and helping low-income Montanans with consumer law issues.

• American Bar Association Janet Steiger Antitrust Fellow with the Office of Consumer Protection in the Montana Attorney General's Office.

• Nationally-certified financial educator and foreclosure prevention specialist with Homeword 

• Helped found the Montana Financial Education Coalition and the Montana Alliance for Responsible Finance to promote financial education and fair lending practices in Montana.

• Drafted and lobbied for anti-predatory lending laws at the Montana Legislature.

 

Other Accomplishments:

 

• Adjunct faculty at University of Montana School of Law (Products Liability)

• Clerked for Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, for Hon. James R. Browning and Hon. Sidney R. Thomas

• Editor-in-Chief of Montana Law Review 2007-2008

 

I am admitted to practice in all Montana state courts, United States District Court for the District of Montana, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  I am proud to be a member of the State Bar of Montana, the Montana Trial Lawyers' Association, and the National Association of Consumer Advocates.

 

When I am not in the office, I can be found getting lost outside, listening to old country songs, and trying to keep up with an energetic seven-year-old and two-year-old.