Catherine has been practicing law for nearly fourteen years. Catherine began practicing law near St. Petersburg, representing the State of Florida, Agency for Health Care Administration during their fledgling efforts to recover from estates in Florida for Medicaid liens. Since that time, she has been in practice here in Orlando. For the past six years, she has had her own firm where she continues to focus her practice in the areas of probate, guardianship, estate planning and Special Needs Trusts.

    Catherine was born in Jacksonville and raised here in central Florida, graduating from Lyman High School in Longwood. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the George Washington University in Washington, DC, her Juris Doctor from Stetson University’s College of Law in St. Petersburg, Florida and her Master of Laws in Transnational Business Practice from the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California.

    She is a member of the Florida and Orange County Bar Associations, the Florida and National Elder Law Attorneys Associations as well as the Florida State Guardianship Association. She served three terms as the Treasurer of the Volie A. Williams Inns of Court.

    She has also served as the President of the central Florida chapter of Women in Insurance and Financial Services. After serving two terms as a member of the Board of Adjustment and Appeals and also on the Commuter Rail Task Force, she is now a member of the Code Enforcement Board for the city of Maitland. She has been published many times in various legal publications as well as the Orlando Sentinel.

    Catherine, her husband, Scott, and their daughters, Emma and Olivia, live in Maitland