I grew up in Connecticut, and attended the University of Virginia as an undergraduate, where I met my husband Pat, and then again for law school. Following law school graduation, Pat and I relocated to Charlotte, where I practiced law with Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman (now K&L Gates) in the Corporate and Securities/Transactional, before retiring in 1999 to be at home with our three children. . For the past 17 years I have worked as the Registrar for North Carolina Swimming. We joined FPC in 1991, and I joined the choir shortly thereafter. In addition to music, I love to travel, especially to see family and our kids in New York and Germany, the beach, skiing, sports and cooking.