President Astrid B. Watterson, CCLS Paralegal Somach Simmons & Dunn 500 Capitol Mall, Suite 1000 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 446-7979 awatterson@somachlaw.com

Astrid B. Watterson, CCLS is a paralegal with the offices of Somach Simmons & Dunn. Her areas of specialty are environmental law and litigation. She is a paralegal graduate from CSU Stanislaus and passed the California Certified Legal Secretary (CCLS) exam in 2003. This is her fifth year serving on the SLSA Executive Board as either Secretary (2004-2005), President (2005-2007), or Governor (2007-2008) and having served SLSA for a number of years in other chairman capacities, including the Legal Secretarial Training Co-Chair teaching the Beginning Legal Secretary courses and the more advanced CCLS courses. Astrid has also been a speaker for other organizations such as the Bay Area Legal Secretaries Forum and has served at the state level as the Advertising chair (2007-2008) and California Certified Legal Secretary chair (2008-2010) for Legal Secretaries, Inc.

	Vice President Anne French Legal Assistant Downey Brand, LLP 621 Capitol Mall, 18th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 520-5268 afrench@downeybrand.com
Anne French is a Legal Assistant with the offices of Downey Brand, LLP. Her area of specialty is civil litigation. She received her paralegal certificate from American River College in 1997. She has been a member of SLSA since 2005 and this is her first year serving on the SLSA Executive Board.

	Secretary Crystal Rivera Legal Secretary Somach Simmons & Dunn 500 Capitol Mall, Suite 1000 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 446-7979, ext. 3813 crivera@somachlaw.com
Crystal Rivera is a legal secretary at Somach Simmons & Dunn, an environmental law firm. Crystal has been with Somach Simmons & Dunn for nine years, and has been a legal secretary since 1979. This is her first year serving on the SLSA Executive Board.

Governor Dawn R. Forgeur, CCLS Litigation Secretary Greenberg Traurig, LLP 1201 K Street, Suite 1100 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 442-1111 forgeurd@gtlaw.com

Dawn R. Forgeur, CCLS, is a litigation secretary and paralegal with the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Her area of expertise is civil litigation. She passed the California Certified Legal Secretary examination in 2008. This is her first time serving on the SLSA Executive Board but she has served SLSA in other chairman positions, including the Legal Secretarial Training Co-Chair for a number of years, and the CCLS Co-Chair for the 2009-2010 term. She has also served as the Legal Secretarial Training/Seminar chair at the state level of Legal Secretaries, Inc. during the 2009-2010 term.

Parliamentarian Tammy L. Hunt, CCLS Recovery Analyst City of Stockton Risk Services 425 North El Dorado Street, 3rd Floor Stockton, California 95202 (209) 937-8805 tammy.hunt@tlhunt.org

Tammy L. Hunt, CCLS, is a Recovery Analyst for the City of Stockton, where she has handled the subrogation for all departments within the City of Stockton since August 2009 and also handles the small claims court cases as the City's agent. Prior to her current position, she was a Legal Secretary II with the Stockton City Attorney's Office for more than 10 years, where she handled the support for the Code Enforcement litigation team and other litigation matters. Prior to that, she worked for a sole practitioner. Tammy served as the Treasurer, President, Governor, Conference Chair and many other chairmanships with the Stockton-San Joaquin County LPA prior to transferring to SLSA. She has served as Treasurer, Parliamentarian, and Webmaster for SLSA, and has assisted in any way possible throughout her time with SLSA. Tammy served as the LSI Criminal Law Section Leader as well.

Executive Advisor Jennifer Rotz Paralegal Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP 304 "S" Street Sacramento, CA 95811-6906 916-329-3139 jrotz@murphyaustin.com

Jennifer Rotz is a litigation paralegal with the Healthcare Practice Team at Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP. She graduated from MTI College with a degree in paralegal studies and continues to work towards her bachelor’s degree. Jennifer has served SLSA as Secretary (2005-2006 and 2007-2008), Governor (2006-2007), Vice President (2008-2009), and is the immediate Past President (2009-2010). Jennifer also served as Bulletin Editor from 2005-2008, and occasionally serves as Interim Bulletin Editor when the need arises.

Past Presidents

Edna Losser Minze	1940-41
Gloria Soares Massi	1941-43
Fern Alameda	1943-45
Velma Tougaw	1945-46
Shari Shannon	1946 **
Margaret F. Purcell	1946-48
Mavis Brown	1948-49
Marie D. Stevenson	1949-50
Katherine Scheetz	1950-51
Freda Goodwin Collier	1951-53
Sophronia G. Brigance	1953-54
Lorena Wangsgaard	1954-55
Atha Whalen	1955-56
Julia Dominguez	1956-57
Bette J. White	1957-58
Marie Fleckenstein	1958-59
Doris Thomas	1959-60
Patricia Elsesser	1960-61
Shirley Godfrey	1961-62
Margery Lodi Edmonds	1962-63
Freda Goodwin Collier	1963-64
Jacqueline A. Goldsmith	1964-65
Joan Cossick	1965-66
Gloria Soares Massi	1966-67
Anna Gainsley	1967-69
Hazel Allenbach	1969-70
Doris Vota	1970-72
Atha Whalen	1972-73
Alma Pritchard	1973-74
Barbara Butler	1974-75
Catherine L. Stroh	1975-77
Diana Penny	1977-78
Marvelene Breech	1978-80
Elizabeth Wilson	1980-82
Jane R. Schluter	1982-84
Teresa Mironchik	1984-86
Jacquelyn Ferguson	1986-88
Judy Ramey	1988-90
Paula Grenz	1990-91
Linda Partmann	1991-93
Tamara Martin	1993-94
Barbara Dilling	1994-96
Sherri Lee Caplette, CCLS	1996-98
Debbie Frias, CCLS	1998-00
Mary-Ann Andrews	2000-02
Janice M. Ainsworth	2002-04
Leesa R. Estey, CCLS	2004
Dawn Willis	2004-05**
Astrid B. Watterson, CCLS	2005-07
Cyrene Farrell, CCLS	2007-08
Elicia Allen, CCLS	2008-09
Jennifer Rotz	2009-10

** Finished incomplete term