PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Partner: Hendrix, Brinich & Bertalan LLP (since 1995) business, real estate, landlord & tenant, land use law and intellectual property law
• Chief Deputy District Attorney: Deschutes County, Bend, Oregon. Prosecution of felony cases; supervised and coordinated caseloads for 10 attorneys (1990-95)
• Associate: Crabtree & Rhamsdorff, Bend, Oregon; criminal defense (1987-90)
• Associate: Ralph Smith & Assoc., Baker, Oregon; civil law and criminal defense (1982-87)
• Associate: AAA Engineering, Salt Lake City, Utah; mapping of geological 
structures and calculation of coal reserves of western Colorado and central Utah (1978-79).
• Admitted Oregon State Bar (1982)
• Admitted U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Bar (1991)
• Admitted U.S. District Court for Oregon (1995)

JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS

• Circuit & District Court Judge pro-tem (since 1995; since 1998 w/o restrictions) Deschutes, Crook & Jefferson Counties
• Arbitrator, Deschutes, Crook & Jefferson Counties, mandatory arbitration program (since 1995)

LEGAL EDUCATION

• J.D., Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College (1982)

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

• B.S., University of Utah, Geology, w/strong emphasis in Geological Engineering (1975-77)
• Author: Disseminated Gold Deposits of the Roberts Mountain Thrust Fault of   
Eastern Nevada (1977)
• Cleveland State University School of Engineering, Honors in Mathematics
(1974-75)

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

• Board Member and Secretary of St. Francis School (1996-98)
• Law in the Classroom Committee, Oregon State Bar (1984-86)