• July 31, 1999 to Present: GOOD HARBOR MORTGAGE COMPANY, 1600 Barlow Street, Suite B, Traverse City, MI 49686. Manager and Sole Member of Good Harbor, LLC d/b/a Good Harbor Mortgage Company. Received First Mortgage Lender's License from Michigan Financial Institutions Bureau on February 9, 2000.
  
  
• Nov. 08, 1998 to Oct. 1, 1999: FAIRWAY MORTGAGE COMPANY and MCA FINANCIAL CORPORATION, 121 S. Garfield Avenue, Traverse City, MI 49686. Served as loan officer originating conventional, government and non-conforming mortgage loans.
  
  
• Sept. 18, 1998 to Sept. 18, 2000: MORTGAGE CLOSINGS, INC., 2425 S. Linden Road, Suite 121, Flint, MI 48532. Independent Contractor acting as Closing Agent for various title companies for 13 county area in northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
  
  
• Aug. 18, 1997 to Sept. 18, 1998: MID-AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY, 126 Boardman Avenue, Traverse City, MI 49684. Closing Agent. Reviewed title work, prepared settlement statements and disbursements and scheduled and conducted closings. Coordinated all aspects of real estate transactions with seller, buyer, lender, attorneys and Realtors.

• Licensed to practice law in Michigan since 1998. Also licensed to practice law in Ohio since November, 1986. (inactive since September 1, 1999). Practiced as a solo practitioner at SHELDON LAW OFFICE, 2044 Broadway, Toledo, Ohio. Engaged in the general practice of law including real estate, probate, juvenile, domestic relations, criminal, creditor's rights, landlord/tenant, personal injury, worker's compensation, social security, business and bankruptcy issues. Aug., 1986 to Sept., 1987: Served as law clerk to HON. DON J. YOUNG, Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division. Extensively researched issues of racial, sexual and age discrimination, and other civil and criminal matters and prepared memoranda and opinions re same.
  
  
• July, 1986: Received Juris Doctor degree from UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON SCHOOL OF LAW, Dayton, Ohio. Graduated in top third of class, with honors in Federal Jurisdiction. Editor-in-Chief, EQUITABLE RELIEF, law student newspaper. Received Bachelor of Arts degree from MIAMI UNIVERSITY, Oxford, Ohio, majoring in English, with emphasis on business and technical writing in Professional Writing Program, and Political Science. Dean's List Four Semesters. Editor-in-Chief, DIMENSIONS, Miami University's magazine of the arts. Member, English Honorary Society

• "Mitigating the Effects of Private Revitalization on Housing for the Poor," 70 Marquette Law Review 1 (1986); "Private Revitalization and Low-Income Housing," Zoning and Planning Law Report, Vol. 9, no. 6, Clark Boardman, Co., Ltd., New York, NY 10014 (1986), republished in 1987 Zoning and Planning Handbook, Clark Boardman Co., Ltd., New York, NY 10014. Published poetry in DIMENSIONS and ORPHEUS magazines.

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