Community Involvement and Experience

Elected Positions

State Representative 4th Barnstable District (2007- present)

Provincetown Board of Selectmen (2002 - 2007)

Charter Enforcement Commission (1994 - 2002)

Legislative Committee Assignments

Vice Chair, Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts, and Cultural Development

House Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures, and State Assets

House Committee Post-Audit and Oversight

Appointed Positions

Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands, Advisory Council

Lower Cape Outreach Council, Honorary Director

Memberships

National Conference of State Legislators

Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators

American Bar Association

Massachusetts Bar Association

Barnstable County Bar Association

Provincetown Business Guild (President, 1995 - 1997)

Education

Pace University, JD.

Admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York.

Colgate University, AB.

Employment History

Co-owner of Heritage House, B&B in Provincetown, since 1993.

Keane & Beane, P.C., White Plains, NY, 1985-1988 Law Clerk, 1988-1993. Attorney, with emphasis on municipal law, real estate, and land use.

Pace University, Pleasantville, NY 1980-1985. Assistant Director, Residential Life & Housing.

My Early History

Raised in Bronxville, New York, attended Bronxville Public Schools.

Active in church youth groups, choir and taught Sunday school.

President, Leaders Club, and Captain of BHS Field Hockey team.

Spent my summers on Cape Cod, learning to sail and developing a love of nature and of the Cape that continues today.