Experience & Credentials
State Licensure
Certified Court Reporter (CCR), Alabama Board of Court Reporters – License No. 476
Notary Public – Over 30 years of continuous service
Education and Training
Bachelor of Science in English, University of Southern Mississippi
Technical Certification in Computer Science
Vocational Training in Court Reporting
Graduate Studies in English and Education
- Certificates of completion for “Veterans Affairs Privacy and Information Security Awareness and Rules of Behavior (WBT)” and “Privacy and HIPAA Training” (TMS training)
Professional Experience
Owner and Certified Court Reporter, Miss Court Reporter (1999 – present)
Official Court Reporter, State of Alabama, 14th Judicial Circuit (2014 – 2018)
- Interim Official Court Reporter, State of Alabama, 31st Judicial Circuit (2019)
- Temporary Official Court Reporter, State of Mississippi, 22nd Judicial Circuit (2003)
Six years of experience as a legal secretary
Over three decades of experience in transcription, scoping, and proofreading of legal documents and records
Court Reporting Services Experience
Depositions & Sworn Statements
Depositions for plaintiffs and defendants
Expert medical, technical, and professional witnesses
Examinations under oath and sworn statements
Proceedings for Governmental & Regulatory Agencies
- United States of America
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs
- Administrative Investigation Board hearings (AIB hearings)
- EEO depositions
- Fair Hearings
- Formal Fact Findings
- Grievance Hearings
- Disciplinary Appeals Board Hearing
- United States Department of Labor, Final Adjudication Branch
- United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division
- United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Nashville Field Division
- American Arbitration Association
- United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 4
- United States Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges
- United States District Court for the District of Arizona
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Jasper Division
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Western Division
- United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
- United States of America, Merit Systems Protection Board
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Arbitration Department
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs
- Alabama
- Alabama State Oil and Gas Board
- Alabama Tax Tribunal
- Alabama State Bar Disciplinary Board
- Alabama Department of Human Resources
- Alabama Department of Revenue
- Alabama Department of Corrections
- Alabama Department of Environmental Management
- Alabama Board of Massage Therapy
- Alabama Department of Environmental Management, Underground and Aboveground Storage Tank Trust Fund Management Board
- Alabama Department of Finance, State Employee Injury Compensation Trust Fund
- Alabama Department of Public Health
- Alabama Ethics Commission
- Alabama Health Planning and Development Agency, Certificate of Need Review Board
- Alabama Health Planning and Development Agency, Statewide Health Coordinating Council
- Alabama State Board of Health
- Alabama State Board of Public Accountancy
- Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) (Business meeting with Alabama Governor presiding)
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Department of Alabama
- Jefferson County Board of Health
- Mississippi
- Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ)
- Mississippi State Board of Health
- Mississippi State Bar Association
- Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Commission
Courts & Appellate Bodies
- Circuit, chancery, district, domestic relations/family, municipal, bankruptcy, and federal courts
- Circuit Court of Bibb County, Alabama
- Circuit Court of Colbert County, Alabama
- Circuit Court of Etowah County, Alabama
- Circuit Court of Franklin County, Alabama
- Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama
- Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, Bessemer Division
- Circuit Court of Limestone County, Alabama
- Circuit Court of Madison County, Alabama
- Circuit Court of Marengo County, Alabama
- Circuit Court of Marion County, Alabama
- Circuit Court of Marshall County, Alabama
- Circuit Count of Montgomery County, Alabama
- Circuit Court of Talladega County, Alabama, Talladega Division
- Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
- Circuit Court of Walker County, Alabama
- City of Chelsea, Alabama
- City of Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- Civilian Board of Contract Appeals
- District Court of Fayette County, Alabama
- Grand Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles, Office of the Grand Tribunal
- Juvenile Court of St. Clair County, Alabama
- Municipal Court of Helena, Alabama
- Municipal Court of Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- Probate Court of Jefferson County, Alabama
- State Court of Gwinnett County, State of Georgia
- Certified transcripts prepared for:
Alabama Supreme Court
Alabama Court of Civil Appeals
- Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
- Mississippi Supreme Court
Professional Memberships
Member, Alabama Court Reporters Association (ACRA) – 2005 to present
Additional Experience
AI (Artificial Intelligence) Trainer — February 2024 – present
- Provide AI training through creative writing and various tasks with Outlier for available projects
Provided scoping services to Rev/Format Services for AI-produced legal transcripts (June/July 2023)
Freelance Scopist / Proofreader / Editor / Writer — May 1992 – present