Honors and Awards:

• Received award for highest grade in Advanced Legal Writing for 2001 graduating class., AmJur award for Advanced Legal Writing, Law School - University of Missouri - Kansas City, 2001
• This is a peer-nominated award for the attorneys who are best in their practicing field.  The lawyers who received this award have built solid reputations and won broad support and admiration from their peers., Best of the Bar, KC Business Journal, 2011
• This award was issued to attorneys who are 40 and under or who have been practicing 10 years or less.  The award recepient epitomizes excellence in the legal community and is identified as a leader in the community-at-large., Up & Coming, Missouri Lawyers Weekly, 2011

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Member, Missouri Assocation of Trial Attorneys, 2001
• Member, MATA Women, 2009
• University of Missouri-Kansas City- Inn of Courts - Holliday Inn, 2010
• Association of Women Lawyer’s Foundation (AWLF) – Sustaining Member, 2011
• Member, Kansas Bar Association, 2011
• Member, Clay County Bar Association, 2011
• Member, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, 2011
• Association of Women Lawyers - Greater Kansas City - Board member CLE committee, 2011

Pro bono/Community Service:

• NBC Action News “Ask A Lawyer Night” through KCMBA-Young Lawyers Section, 2003
• Pro Bono work for the Missouri Public Defender’s Office, 2007
• Salvation Army - Christmas Charity Bell Ringer, 2010
• Habitat for Humanity, 2010
• MATA - Emergency Response Team - Joplin Relief, 2011
• Harvesters, 2011
• Hope Haven of Cass County, MO - Shelter for Abused Women - Board of Directors, 2012

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Published in the September, 2011 AWL Link.  This article discusses the effect of the then pending appellate court decision in Nokes, et al. v. HMS Host USA, LLC, WD73055 on the current state of Dram Shop law in the state of Missouri., Co-Author, Changes to Dram Shop Law May Be Only A Shot Away, Association of Women Lawyers - The Link, 2011

Verdicts and Settlements:

• McCurley v. Bridges – Wyandotte Co, KS: 2004-PR-000323 – 2005 – Wrongful Death ($300,000 settlement for negligence of homeowner resulting in natural gas explosion), 2005
• Confidential v. Confidential – Jackson Co, MO – 2008 – Products liability ($2,125,000 settlement involving a young woman who sustained a severe traumatic brain injury while restrained only by a lap belt in a minivan), 2008
• Harris v. MHTC – Jackson Co, MO: 0816-CV00420- 2009- Wrongful Death – $100,000 Arbitration – award for plaintiff for improper warning of dangerous condition allowed to exist on I-70 bridge over Manchester), 2009
• Confidential v. Confidential – Jackson Co, MO - 2010 - Dram Shop ($4,000,000 settlement for a brother and sister injured by drunk driver over-served at local establishment), 2010
• Brown v. Allinder, Jackson Co: 0916-CV40080 – 2011 – Automobile negligence – Jury Trial – ($70,000 plaintiff’s verdict for rotator cuff repair), 2011
• Smith v. Bush, Lafayette Co: 10LF-CV00715 – 2011 – Civil Negligence – ($2,268,979          plaintiff’s judgment in a bench trial for serious personal injuries sustained when a throttle stuck open on defendant’s motorcycle), 2011
• Clough v. Taylor, Clay Co: 11CY-CV04226 – 2011- Wrongful Death ($1,100,000    settlement for 21 year old man hit and killed while riding his bicycle on public street), 2011

Other Outstanding Achievements:

• Outstanding PACE Student Award for overall achievement - UMKC undergraduate, 1998
• Highest Academic Rank of 1998 graduating class at University of Missouri - Kansas City undergraduate, 1998