PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

·         Partner: Hendrix Brinich & Bertalan, LLP (1988-present) litigation, real estate, construction, land use, business and intellectual property law.  BV rating.

·         Associate: Marceau Karnopp Petersen Noteboom & Hubel, Bend, Oregon (1987-88).

·         Legal Counsel and Deputy District Attorney: Crook County, Prineville, Oregon (1983-87).

·         Admitted Oregon State Bar (1983).

·         Admitted U.S. District Court for Oregon (1985).

JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS

·         Circuit Court Judge pro-tem (1987-present) Deschutes, Crook & Jefferson Counties.

·         Juvenile Court Referee for Deschutes County (1988-92).

·         Deschutes, Crook & Jefferson Counties Court Arbitrator (1994-present).

LEGAL EDUCATION, HONORS, AND ACTIVITIES

·         J.D., Willamette University College of Law (1983).

·         Executive Editor (1982-83), Staff (1981-82) Willamette Law Review.

·         Author: Comment, “Public Sector Union Security in Oregon and Washington: Political and Religious Exceptions to Fair Share Agreements” 19 Willamette L. Rev. 75 (1983).

·         Dean's Honor List (Spring 1983); High Paper (Contracts 1981).

·         National Labor Law Moot Court, New York City (1983), National Quarterfinalist.

·         Law Clerk for Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer and Deputy A.G. Stanton Long (1982-83).

·         Teaching Assistant for Legal Research and Writing (1981-82).

·         Regular columnist for law school newsletter, The Lawyer.

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

·         A.B., Political Science with Honors & Distinction (1979), San Diego State University.

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

·         Board Member, Hospice of Bend-LaPine, (1987-03; chair 1994-96; 1999-03).

·         Chair of successful Hospice House project to construct hospice in-patient care center (1997-03).

·         Ethics Committee Member, Hospice of Bend-LaPine (2003-present)

·         Founding-Chair, Deschutes County Bar Association (1995-96).

·         Delegate, Oregon State Bar House of Delegates (1996).

·         Bar Counsel, (prosecuting ethics violations) Oregon State Bar (1996-present).

·         Local Professional Responsibility Committee / Oregon State Bar (1992-95, chair 1994-95).

·         Lead “Mentor” Attorney for CASA program (1994-98).

·         Founding-board member, Central Oregon Bone Marrow Transplant Foundation, "Life-Core", (89-91).

·         Committee member, City of Bend Budget Committee (1987).