Education:
BA, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 1984.

Professional Experience:
Investment Executive, Drexel, Burnham and Lambert
Employee, Kidder Peabody and Company.

Political Experience:
Assistant Republican Leader, California State Assembly, present
Assemblymember, California State Assembly, 2005-present
Honorary Statewide Chair, Protect Our Homes Coalition, 2006
Chair, Border Police Initiative, Orange County, 2005
Mayor, City of Laguna Niguel
Chair, El Toro Reuse Planning Authority
Member, Laguna Niguel City Council
Co-Chair, Rescue California-Recall Gray Davis, Orange County.

Organizations:
Former Board Member, American Cancer Society
Founder, California Women's Leadership Association
Former Board Member, Laguna Niguel Republican Women Federated
Former Board Member, National Association of Women Business Owners
Former Board Member, South Coast Medical Center Foundation.

Committees:
Appropriations, Member
Budget and Fiscal Review, Member
Business, Professions, and Economic Development, Member
Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments, Vice Chair
Judiciary, Member
Legislative Ethics, Chair
Revenue and Taxation, Vice Chair