President
Brenda Bracy, CCLS
Legal Secretary
c/o Boutin Jones Inc.
555 Capitol Mall, Suite 1500
Sacramento, CA 95814
Work: (916) 321-5440
president@slsa.org
Brenda Bracy is a legal secretary with Boutin Jones Inc. in their Litigation Department. Brenda has been a member of SLSA since 2014, and was Vice President from 2016-2017 and Secretary from 2015-2016. She has been in the legal field for 30+ years.
Vice President
Jaime Gooch
Business Development Executive
c/o Aptus Court Reporting
770 L Street, Ste. 950
Sacramento, CA 95814
Work: (916) 229-8332
vicepresident@slsa.org
Jaime Gooch is the Business Development Executive with Aptus Court Reporting. Jaime came to SLSA after serving on the Board of Directors with Fresno County Legal Professional’s Association from 2015-2017. She has been serving Law Firms in the Central Valley for 5+ years.
Secretary
Shannon Kline
Paralegal
secretary@slsa.org
Shannon Kline has been in the legal field for 25+ years. Her focus is in civil litigation and corporate governance. Shannon has been a member of SLSA since 2015, serving as Treasurer from 2016-2017 and Secretary from 2017 to present.
Treasurer
Marci Frazier
Downey Brand LLP
621 Capitol Mall, 18th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814
Work: 916-520-5208
treasurer@slsa.org
Marci Frazier is a civil and bankruptcy litigation secretary at Downey Brand LLP. She has been in the legal field for 30+ years and has held several positions including paralegal, office manager and legal secretary. Marci has been a member of SLSA since her move from Chicago to California in 2015.
Governor
Jan Ainsworth
Legal Secretary
Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld
555 Capitol Mall, Suite 850
Sacramento, CA 95814
Work: (916) 329-3126
governor@slsa.org
Jan Ainsworth is a civil litigation secretary, floater, and docket clerk for Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP in downtown Sacramento. Jan has been in the legal field for 30+ years and has been awarded lifetime membership in SLSA. She has served SLSA in many capacities over the years, including President (2002-2004), Governor, Executive Advisor, Parliamentarian, Secretary, and many of the chair positions.
Executive Advisor
Crystal Rivera
Legal Secretary
c/o Somach Simmons & Dunn
500 Capitol Mall, Ste. 1000
Sacramento, CA 95814
Work: (916) 469-3813
Crystal Rivera is a legal secretary at Somach Simmons & Dunn, an environmental law firm. She has been with Somach Simmons & Dunn for 15 years, and has been a legal secretary since 1979. She joined SLSA in 2008, was SLSA’s President from 2015-2017, Vice President from 2014-2015, Secretary from 2010-2011, and has served on many committees over the past several years.
executiveadvisor@slsa.org
Parliamentarian
Astrid B. Furstner, CCLS, OCP, CORE
Paralegal
parliamentarian@slsa.org
Astrid B. Furstner, CCLS has been a paralegal for over 13 years. 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 tenth year serving on the SLSA Executive Board as either Secretary (2004-2005), President (2005-2007; 2010-2011), Governor (2007-2008), or Parliamentarian (2011-present), 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. In addition to serving at the local level for SLSA, Astrid was the appointed Parliamentarian for the state chapter, and has served as the Advertising chair (2007-2008) and California Certified Legal Secretary chair (2008-2010) for Legal Secretaries, Inc., and has also been a speaker for other organizations such as the Bay Area Legal Forum.
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 Hefley, CCLS (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. Furstner, CCLS | 2005-07 |
| Cyrene Farrell, CCLS | 2007-08 |
| Elicia Allen, CCLS | 2008-09 |
| Jennifer Rotz | 2009-10 |
| Astrid B. Furstner, CCLS | 2010-11 |
| Dawn R. Forgeur, CCLS | 2011-13 |
| Lynne Prescott, CCLS | 2013-15 |
| Crystal Rivera | 2015-17 |
** Finished incomplete term