I was born in Rockford, Illinois, the oldest of two children. My mother, Susan, taught elementary school and my father, Lyndon, worked as a scientist. My mother’s family traveled the world with the Air Force after my grandfather survived Pearl Harbor and was a decorated pilot in WWII. My father’s family farmed in Central Illinois. My father dreamed of being a scientist and taught himself Calculus on the school bus. He achieved a PhD in Chemistry and went on to work in computer science, producing multiple patents.
I grew up in a household that valued hard work and education. I survived a brain tumor as a child and that experience reinforced for me the value of family and community. I went on to earn a BA in History and Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. While in college, I spent a year in Spain and learned to speak Spanish. I then went to the same university for law school and started my legal career in 2000.
It was after college that I met and married my husband, a physician from Peru. We worked together to build a life in America and have two wonderful children. We moved to Marshfield in 2007 and have raised our children in the Marshfield school system.
I have spent over twenty years practicing corporate law, with extensive experience in health care, immigration, education and business. I believe in leaving the world a better place than you found it and so would like to harness all of my experience in the service of Wisconsin families!
